ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,718, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for noise reduction for blending blurred frames in a multi-frame system" was invented by John Glotzbach (Allen, Texas), Zhen Tong (Allen, Texas) and Hamid R. Sheikh (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for noise reduction improvement for blending blurred frames in a multi-frame system. The method includes retrieving a number of frames of an image. The method also includes identifying one or more edges within the frames and comparing an edge strength of a reference frame and an edg...