ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,937, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Image acquisition apparatus and method of operating the same" was invented by Woo-Shik Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image acquisition apparatus includes: a sensor unit including a plurality of first image sensors that are based on a wavelength band of 380 nm to 780 nm; and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to: acquire common illumination information from an image output from at least one of the plurality of first image sensors, and color-convert an image output from each of the pl...