ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,184, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Use of an HDR image in a visual inspection process" was invented by Yonatan Hyatt (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for integrating HDR images in video processing in a time efficient process. In one embodiment, a method for machine vision image processing includes obtaining a plurality of images of a scene, each image having a different exposure value. The images are captured by a camera having a specific dynamic range. Pixel values of the plurality of images are compared to the dynamic range of the ca...