US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on Oct. 14 for "Method and apparatus to estimate scene illuminant based on skin reflectance database" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,229, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus to estimate scene illuminant based on skin reflectance database" was invented by David Wyble (Webster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of a method may include obtaining an image a real-world environment, determining an estimated illuminant spectral power distribution of an illuminant of the real-world environment, and detecting a region of the image representing human skin. The method may further include determining a representative skin color value of the region and based on the estimated illuminant sp...