ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,177, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SHANGHAI INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURING INNOVATION CENTER Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Method for correcting anomalous pixel and apparatus" was invented by Rui Yin (Shanghai), Min Xu (Shanghai) and Wei Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for correcting the anomalous pixel includes: calculating a matching index of pixels in a first point cloud map and a second point cloud map; finding out an anomalous pixel based on the matching index of the pixels and a correction threshold; and calculating a correction column difference, and correcting the anomalous pixel based on the correction...