US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on March 25 for "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for managing auto-exposure of image frames depicting color-biased content" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,123, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Apparatuses, systems, and methods for managing auto-exposure of image frames depicting color-biased content" was invented by Zhen He (Cupertino, Calif.) and Jeffrey M. DiCarlo (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative apparatus may determine a color-skew metric for an image frame captured by an image capture system. The color-skew metric may be indicative of an extent to which the image frame skews to a particular color. Based on the color-skew metric and an adaptive target control function, the apparatus may determi...