US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 4 for "Machine learning based noise reduction circuit" (American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,346, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Machine learning based noise reduction circuit" was invented by Maxim Smirnov (San Jose, Calif.), David R. Pope (Campbell, Calif.), Henryk K. Blasinski (Lodz, Poland) and Kaiming Liu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to an image processing circuit that performs machine learning (ML) based noise reduction on image data. The image processing circuit includes a ML based noise reduction circuit that includes a hybrid kernel calculation circuit and a noise filtering circuit coupled to the hybrid kernel calculation circuit. The hybrid ...