ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,235, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seoul National University R&DB Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus with image restoration" was invented by Kinam Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Heewon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Kyoung Mu Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyong Euk Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method with image restoration includes: receiving an input image and a first task vector indicating a first image effect among candidate image effects; extracting a common feature shared by the candidate image effects from the input image, ba...