US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Jan. 20 for "Image acquisition apparatus and method of acquiring images using a multispectral image sensor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,054, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image acquisition apparatus and method of acquiring images using a multispectral image sensor" was invented by Soongeun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Woo-Shik Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image acquisition apparatus may include a multispectral image sensor configured to acquire an image of at least one object in an environment in which at least one illumination source exists, through eight or more channels with minimum overlap between the channels, and a processor configured to estimate illumination spectr...