ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,025, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Synthetic bracketing for exposure correction" was invented by Iuri Frosio (Bergamo, Italy), Mayoore Selvarasa Jaiswal (Bothell, Wash.), Jan Kautz (Lexington, Mass.) and Jianyuan Min (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed related to synthetic bracketing for exposure correction. A deep learning based method and system produces a set of differently exposed images from a single input image. The images in the set may be combined to produce an output image with improved global and local exposure compared with the inpu...