US Patent Issued to CANON on June 10 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium for reducing noise in a captured image" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,336, issued on June 10, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium for reducing noise in a captured image" was invented by Kazuhiro Yahata (Kunitachi, Japan) and Yoshitaka Sasaki (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-local means method is insufficient in its noise reduction effect or edge retainability due to a perfect match between blocks in a case where a reference pixel matches a target pixel. Therefore, information on a target region and plural reference regions is obtained for the target pixel. Whether the target region matches any one of the refer...