US Patent Issued to SOCIONEXT on June 10 for "Method for complementing color image using machine-learning model" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,329, issued on June 10, was assigned to SOCIONEXT INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Method for complementing color image using machine-learning model" was invented by Yukihiro Sasagawa (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A color image inpainting method includes: obtaining a color image of an object to be recognized, the color image including a missing portion where at least part of image information is missing; obtaining an infrared image of the object; identifying the missing portion in the color image; and inpainting the missing portion in the color image identified in the identifying. The inpainting includes inpainting the miss...