ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,072, issued on July 1, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS (Nanjing, China).

"Methods for enhancement of low-light images based on reinforcement learning and aesthetic evaluation" was invented by Dong Liang (Nanjing, China), Ling Li (Nanjing, China), Shengjun Huang (Nanjing, China) and Songcan Chen (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for enhancement of a low-light image based on reinforcement learning and aesthetic evaluation. The method include: generating images of non-normal luminance under different lighting scenes, and constructing a training dataset for a reinforcem...