ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,980, issued on May 27, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Method and system for de-flickering frames" was invented by Shih-Wei Hu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chieh-Kai Kao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Gang-Wei Fan (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shao-Hsiang Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for de-flickering frames captured by a camera including capturing a first frame with short exposure to generate a first short exposure frame, capturing the first frame with long exposure to generate a first long exposure frame, generating brightness energy information of the first frame according to the first short exposure frame an...