US Patent Issued to Baidu USA, Baidu.com Times Technology (Beijing) on Dec. 9 for "Robust and efficient blind super-resolution using variational kernel autoencoder" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,927, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Baidu USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Baidu.com Times Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Robust and efficient blind super-resolution using variational kernel autoencoder" was invented by Zhihong Pan (San Jose, Calif.), Baopu Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Dongliang He (Beijing), Wenhao Wu (Beijing) and Tianwei Lin (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image super-resolution (SR) refers to the process of recovering high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) inputs. Blind image SR is a more challenging task which involves unknown blurring kernels and characterizes the degradation pro...