US Patent Issued to SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY on May 6 for "Image processing device and image processing method using three-dimensional and artificial intelligence noise reduction" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,490, issued on May 6, was assigned to SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY LTD. (Fujian, China).

"Image processing device and image processing method using three-dimensional and artificial intelligence noise reduction" was invented by Hsiu-Wei Ho (Zhubei, Taiwan), Chien-Yuan Tseng (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Ho-Tai Tsai (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes a three-dimensional noise reduction (3D NR) circuit, an artificial intelligence noise reduction (AI NR) circuit, a weight determination circuit and an image blending circuit. The 3D NR circuit performs a 3D NR operation on input image data to generate first i...