US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on Feb. 18 for "Fixed pattern correction for Bayer pattern imager under low light conditions" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,789, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Fixed pattern correction for Bayer pattern imager under low light conditions" was invented by Jerramy Lee Gipson (Willits, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and techniques for dynamic fixed pattern correction for an image sensor. A current image and a previous image received in the image sensor is stored and a bias and gain is computed for the current image, wherein the computing includes processing the current image together with a current local average value, the previous image, and a previous local average value. A gain correction value a...