US Patent Issued to Volkswagen Group of America Investments on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for quantifying light flares in images" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,545, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Volkswagen Group of America Investments LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Systems and methods for quantifying light flares in images" was invented by Koji L. Gardiner (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for identifying light flares in images. An example method may involve receiving an image from an imaging device, the image including data indicative of a flare artifact originating from a region of the image. The example method may also involve determining, based on the image data, a first array of pixels extending radially outwards from the ...