ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,617, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Fused images backgrounds" was invented by Yezhi Shen (West Lafayette, Ind.), Weichen Xu (West Lafayette, Ind.), Qian Lin (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jan P. Allebach (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Fengqing Zhu (West Lafayette, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples in accordance with the present description, an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an image sensor and a controller. The controller is to receive multiple images from the image sensor including respec...