ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,433, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Taiwan).

"Image noise and blurriness reduction" was invented by Chao-Yue Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chi-Cheng Ju (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ying-Jui Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Keh-Tsong Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jia-Ying Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Pin-Wei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various schemes pertaining to generating an output image using hybrid motion-compensated fusion techniques are described. An apparatus receives multi-frame data comprising a plurality of images consecutively captured. The apparatus subsequently generates a first intermediate image and a second in...