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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2010
Applicant:
Igor Subbotin, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Inventor:
Igor Subbotin, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Assignee:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/73 (2006.01); H04N 5/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and system that use a white balance operation. A selecting process is applied to each pixel selected and considered for automatic white balance statistics to determine the distance from the selected pixel to a white curve defined in a white area corresponding to an image sensor.