ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,113, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Luxshare Precision Technology (Nanjing) Co. LTD (Nanjing, China).

"Switching method and switching device for a day and night filter switcher" was invented by Zhendong Fang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching method includes: determining a mean brightness value of pixels in an image and a maximum brightness value of the pixels in the image; determining a brightness threshold according to the maximum brightness value in the image; determining a proportion of an area where a brightness value of each pixel in the image is greater than or equal to the brightness threshold to t...