US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 25 for "Reference frame selection for multi-frame image processing pipelines and other applications" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,424, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Reference frame selection for multi-frame image processing pipelines and other applications" was invented by Ibrahim Pekkucuksen (Plano, Texas) and Hamid R. Sheikh (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, using at least one processing device of an electronic device, multiple image frames having different exposure levels. The method also includes determining whether a moving saturated region is present in at least some of the image frames. The method further includes selecting one of the image frames as a ref...