US Patent Issued to NBCUniversal Media on May 13 for "Image colorization systems and methods" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,979, issued on May 13, was assigned to NBCUniversal Media LLC (New York).

"Image colorization systems and methods" was invented by Harvey Landy (Moorpark, Calif.) and Samuel Harrell (Harbor Springs, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable medium includes computer readable instructions, that when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform operations including receiving a plurality of input images and receiving a guide image corresponding to at least one input image of the plurality of input images. The guide image includes additional colorization relative to the at ...