ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,084, issued on April 1, was assigned to PIXELWORKS SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Methods and systems for improving a quality of digital images" was invented by Neil Woodall (Newport Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and systems are provided for increasing an efficiency of operations for improving digital image quality. In an embodiment, a method for processing a digital image includes generating a higher resolution histogram from the digital image, the higher resolution histogram generated from a lower resolution histogram of raw image data of the digital image, filtering the hig...