ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,974, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ATEME (Velizy Villacoublay, France).
"Method for image processing and apparatus for implementing the same" was invented by Elie Mora (Malakoff, France), Mohsen Abdoli (Rennes, France) and Thomas Guionnet (Rennes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing an image divided into a plurality of pixel blocks which are processed according to a processing sequence is provided, which comprises, for a current pixel block: determining an application area comprising a set of pixels in blocks preceding the current block in the processing sequence; performing a gradient analysis on at lea...