ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,496, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for light estimation" was invented by Inwoo Ha (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jinwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device with light estimation are provided. A method performed by an electronic device includes generating a reference image based on image data acquired by capturing a reference object and based on a first image signal processing (ISP) setting, generating a background image based on raw image data acquired by capturing a real background in which the reference object ...