US Patent Issued to University of Washington on Feb. 18 for "System and method for analyzing surface features using a low-dimensional color space camera" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,830, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"System and method for analyzing surface features using a low-dimensional color space camera" was invented by Ruikang K. Wang (Seattle) and Qinghua He (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method of generating a visualization of wavelength-dependent surface characteristics is provided. A computing device receives an input image captured by a camera, wherein the input image includes information in a low-dimensional color space. The computing device processes the input image to determine spectrum band information in...