US Patent Issued to NOVATEK Microelectronics on April 1 for "Image compensation circuit and method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,594, issued on April 1, was assigned to NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Image compensation circuit and method" was invented by Jung-Yu Tsai (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chen-Tsung Wu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Kuan-Lin Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hung-Yu Yang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image compensation circuit for an image sensor includes a gain amplifier, a compensation control circuit, a memory and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The gain amplifier is used for receiving a plurality of image signals from the image sensor and amplifying the plurality of image signals. The compensation control...