ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,243, issued on July 8, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).
"Image denoising method, device, and computer-readable medium using U-net" was invented by Zibo Meng (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Chiuman Ho (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. In the method, a first image is processed through a U-net to obtain a second image, and the second image is a noise map of the first image. The U-net includes an encoding network, a decoding network, and a bottleneck network between the encod...