US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on June 3 for "Video magnification using anisotropy measure for noise reduction" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,116, issued on June 3, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Video magnification using anisotropy measure for noise reduction" was invented by Shoichiro Takeda (Musashino, Japan), Kazuki Okami (Musashino, Japan), Megumi Isogai (Musashino, Japan) and Hideaki Kimata (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a change detection unit configured to detect color or luminance change for each of different resolutions among changes in color or luminance in a color or luminance image, and a reliability estimation unit configured to estimate reliability of the detected color o...