ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,252, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for scene-adaptive denoise scheduling and efficient deghosting" was invented by Nguyen Thang Long Le (Garland, Texas), Tyler Luu (Richardson, Texas) and Hamid R. Sheikh (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating alignment maps for a first image frame having a first exposure level and a second image frame having a second exposure level different than the first exposure level. The method also includes generating, for the second image frame and a third image frame having a third exposure level ...