US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on Nov. 11 for "Noise reduction method for very low light level night vision" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,846, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Noise reduction method for very low light level night vision" was invented by Michael A. Ropers (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for reducing frame-to-frame variations at the pixel level during noise reduction includes determining the noise source and the magnitude of those sources in the system. Once the system noise is characterized a selection of filters can be tailored to target the noise present in the system. The large temporal spikes, or impulse responses, in pixel value are considered to be discrete photo...