ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,079, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"System and method for removing haziness in digital images" was invented by Mahendra Kumar Angamuthu Ganesan (Chennai, India), Prabu Palaniappan (Namakkal, India), Arun Anandan (Chennai, India), Swaran Thekkevavanoor (Chennai, India) and Abdul A. Mahaboob Basha (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for removing haziness in a digital image is provided. The method includes receiving an input digital image having some haze content from an image capturing device. The input digital image is downscaled to obtain a low-resolution image. Further, a min...