US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 25 for "Low light and thermal image normalization for advanced fusion" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,522, issued on March 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Low light and thermal image normalization for advanced fusion" was invented by Raymond Kirk Price (Redmond, Wash.), Michael Bleyer (Seattle) and Christopher Douglas Edmonds (Carnation, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating a fused enhanced image. A first image is generated using a first camera of a first modality, and a second image is generated using a second camera of a second modality. Pixels that are common between the two images are identified. Textures for the common pixels are determined. A camera characteri...