US Patent Issued to Covidien on May 27 for "Systems and methods for neural-network based color restoration" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,109, issued on May 27, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for neural-network based color restoration" was invented by Xiaofang Gan (Shanghai), Zhentao Lu (Shanghai) and Xiao Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for color restoration in images includes accessing an image of an object and processing the image based on an image processing operation to provide a processed image, where the image processing affects color of the object. The method further includes determining color adjustment parameters using a trained neural network, wherein an input to the trained neural network is based o...