US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 3 for "Texture-preserving halo suppression for imaging systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,826, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Texture-preserving halo suppression for imaging systems" was invented by Gunawath Dilshan Godaliyadda (Allen, Texas), Tyler Luu (Richardson, Texas), John W. Glotzbach (Allen, 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, an input image containing blur. The method also includes generating, using the at least one processing device, an edge enhancement mask and a gain mask based on the input image. The method further includes gene...