Abstract
According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inventors Bichu, Tanmay Nitin (Mountain View, CA, US); Cheng, Tiffany J. (Cupertino, CA, US); Tico, Marius (Mountain View, CA, US), filed on July 12, 2022, was made available online on January 18, 2024. No assignee for this patent application has been made. Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Fusing multiple images of the same captured scene is an effective way of increasing signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the resulting fused image. This is particularly important for small and/or thin form factor devices-such as mobile phones, tablets, laptops, wearables, etc.-for which the pixel size of the device’s image sensor(s) is often quite small. The smaller pixel size means that there is comparatively less light captured per pixel (i.e., as compared to a full-sized, standalone camera having larger pixel sizes), resulting in more visible noise in captured images-especially in low-light situations.
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