ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,072, issued on June 3, was assigned to Agfa NV (Mortsel, Belgium).
"Method and apparatus for noise reduction" was invented by Joris Soons (Mortsel, Belgium) and Pieter Vuylsteke (Mortsel, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention is related to a multi-scale image processing algorithm for enhancing contrast to noise ratio in an electronic representation of an image represented by a) decomposing said digital image into a set of detail images at multiple resolution levels and a residual image at a resolution level lower than said multiple resolution levels, b) processing said detail images, c) computing a processed image by a...