US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on Dec. 9 for "Method and apparatus for processing RGB-infrared (RGB-IR) sensor data" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,925, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Method and apparatus for processing RGB-infrared (RGB-IR) sensor data" was invented by Shashank Dabral (Allen, Texas), Gang Hua (Katy, Texas) and Mihir Narendra Mody (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing RGB-Infrared (RGB-IR) sensor data is provided that includes receiving a raw RGB-IR image, determining whether to process the raw RGB-IR image in day mode or night mode, generating, when day mode is determined, an infrared (IR) subtracted raw Bayer image from the raw RGB-IR image and processing the IR subtracted raw Bayer image i...