ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,535, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for single image super- resolution for smart device camera" was invented by Devendra Kumar Jangid (Goleta, Calif.), Abhiram Gnanasambandam (Frisco, Texas), John W. Glotzbach (Allen, Texas), John Seokjun Lee (Allen, Texas) and Hamid R Sheikh (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes extracting multiple shallow features from a low-resolution image using a shallow feature extractor that includes a quaternion convolutional network. The method also includes extracting multiple deep features from the multiple ...