ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,216, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Electronic apparatus and image processing method" was invented by Yasushi Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Koji Kawakita (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes: a display in which a plurality of pixels are arranged; a camera; and a controller. Light transmitted through a part of an area of the display is incident on the camera. The controller is configured to determine a high-brightness area in which a brightness exceeds a certain value, based on a brightness distribution of a captured image captured by the camera...