US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Aug. 5 for "Fast diffusion-based image restoration workflow via sharing of initial diffusion steps" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,540, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Fast diffusion-based image restoration workflow via sharing of initial diffusion steps" was invented by Tzu-Cheng Lee (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Xi Chen (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Liang Cai (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of denoising a plurality of input images, including grouping the plurality of input images into a plurality of groups; determining, for each group of the plurality of groups, an initial representative image for the group; performing, for each group, a sequence of T1 denoising sampling steps using a diffusion-bas...