US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Aug. 26 for "Method of applying atmospheric turbulence disturbances to images" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,300, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Method of applying atmospheric turbulence disturbances to images" was invented by Stanley Chan (West Lafayette, Ind.), Nicholas Chimitt (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Zhiyuan Mao (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image generator engine for generating distorted images from an input image is disclosed which includes a random seed generator adapted to generate random seeds, a model adapted to receive the random seeds and generate a first plurality of sets of Zernike coefficients (FPSZC), a pixel shifter adapted to shift pixels o...