ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,014, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"High dynamic range for dual pixel sensors" was invented by Sagi Katz (Yokneam Ilit, Israel), Netanel Kligler (Tzippori, Israel) and Gilad Refael (Ashdod, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for increasing a dynamic range of a dual-pixel image sensor is described. The method includes detecting an intensity level of a full pixel from a plurality of pixels of an optical sensor, one or more full pixels of the plurality of pixels includes at least two sub-pixels, detecting an intensity level of one or more sub-pixels, detecting that the intensity level of...