ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,497, issued on May 6, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Electronic device for estimating camera illuminant and method of the same" was invented by Abdelrahman Abdelhamed (Toronto), Abhijith Punnappurath (Mountain View, Canada) and Michael Scott Brown (Mountain View, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing image data may include: obtaining a first image and a second image that capture a same scene in different views, from a first camera and a second camera, respectively; spatially aligning the first image with the second image; obtaining a color transformation matrix that maps...