US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 20 for "Removing artifacts in images caused by light emitted by electronic screens" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,735, issued on May 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Removing artifacts in images caused by light emitted by electronic screens" was invented by Sunando Sengupta (Reading, Great Britain), Ebey Paulose Abraham (Oxford, Great Britain), Alexandros Neofytou (London) and Eric Chris Wolfgang Sommerlade (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image-processing technique is described herein for removing a visual effect in a face region of an image caused, at least in part, by screen illumination provided by an electronic screen. The technique can perform this removal without advance kno...