US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 12 for "Image-to-image mapping by iterative de-noising" (Canadian, Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,096, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Image-to-image mapping by iterative de-noising" was invented by Chitwan Saharia (Toronto), Mohammad Norouzi (Toronto), William Chan (Toronto), Huiwen Chang (New York), David James Fleet (Toronto), Christopher Albert Lee (Manhattan, N.Y.), Jonathan Ho (New York) and Tim Salimans (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving training data comprising a plurality of pairs of images. Each pair comprises a noisy image and a denoised version of the noisy image. The method also includes training a multi-task diffusion model to perf...