ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,065, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Learning based bad pixel correction" was invented by Igal Avishai (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Gal Bitan (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Roy Yam (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for correcting bad image pixels are described. The described sensor-independent image processing techniques leverage one or more dynamic dictionaries of learned filters for bad pixel correction (e.g., where a camera leverages such dictionaries to efficiently identify filters to accurately adjust and correct bad pixel values). For example, a dic...