US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 15 for "Image acquisition apparatus providing white balance function and electronic apparatus including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,051, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image acquisition apparatus providing white balance function and electronic apparatus including the same" was invented by Woo-Shik Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Inhwan Ryu (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image acquisition apparatus including an image sensor configured to obtain an image, and a processor configured to obtain a basis based on a surrounding environment of the image acquisition apparatus, estimate illumination information based on the obtained basis, and perform color conversion on the im...