US Patent Issued to QUANTA COMPUTER on Aug. 5 for "Fog discrimination method and optical apparatus" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,543, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUANTA COMPUTER INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Fog discrimination method and optical apparatus" was invented by Jung-Wen Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chin-Kang Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chao-Ching Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fog discrimination method is disclosed, including a capturing step, a calculation step, and a determining step. The capturing step includes capturing a sub-image of an image. The sub-image includes a light shield body image and a light shield stripe image. The calculation step includes calculating a maximum average grayscale value and a minimum average gra...