ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,201, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Joint auto-exposure tone-mapping system" was invented by Raz Zvi Nossek (Tel-Aviv, India), Stas Dubinchik (Givatayim, South Korea), Roee Sfaradi (Nes-Ziona, India), Yarden Sharabi (Kinneret Hamoshava, India) and Avi Zanko (Rishon LeZion, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes compression of high dynamic range (HDR) images into low dynamic range (LDR) images while saving useful data in the HDR image. HDR images can be formed by merging images with different exposure times into a single image with high bit-depth...