ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,021, issued on April 8, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Data pre-processing for low-light images" was invented by Karthikeyan Shanmuga Vadivel (San Jose, Calif.), Omar Oreifej (Los Angeles) and Patrick A. Worfolk (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for low-light imaging. In some implementations, an image processor may be configured to reduce or remove noise associated with an image based, at least in part, on a neural network. For example, the neural network may be trained to infer a denoised representation of the image. In some aspects, the imag...