ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,615, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Bad pixel correction in image processing applications or other applications" was invented by Madhuri Suthar (Pasadena, Calif.), Tyler Luu (Richardson, Texas), Nguyen Thang Long Le (Garland, 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 input image frames, including at least two captured using different capture conditions, separating color channels of each image frame, and generating at least one bad pixel map for each color channel of each image frame. E...