US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on April 22 for "Merging multiple exposures to generate a high dynamic range image" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,259, issued on April 22, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Merging multiple exposures to generate a high dynamic range image" was invented by Rajesh Narasimha (Plano, Texas) and Aziz Umit Batur (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a high dynamic range (HDR) image is provided that includes capturing a long exposure image and a short exposure image of a scene, computing a merging weight for each pixel location of the long exposure image based on a pixel value of the pixel location and a saturation threshold, and computing a pixel value for each pixel location of the HDR image as a weighted sum of...