ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,508, issued on May 20, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Image frame selection for multi-frame fusion" was invented by Tomi Marko Juhani Sokeila (Pirkanmaa, Finland) and Ari Vaino Johannes Partinen (Pirkanmaa, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums described herein are configured to fuse image frames captured by a camera to generate an image frame having high dynamic range and reduced amount of noise. For instance, after a shutter button of the camera is activated, one or more history image frames captured during a preview mode of...