US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 4 for "Purple-fringe correction method and purple-fringe correction device" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,978, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Purple-fringe correction method and purple-fringe correction device" was invented by Wenjuan Liu (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A purple-fringe correction method includes determining: (1) a first distance between a first pixel in a purple-fringe area in an image and an overexposed area in the image and (2) a second distance between the first pixel and a non-overexposed, non-purple-fringe area in the image. The first pixel in the purple-fringe area is corrected based on the first distance and the second distance."

The patent wa...