US Patent Issued to Apple on April 14 for "Noise reduction circuit with demosaic processing" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,738, issued on April 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Noise reduction circuit with demosaic processing" was invented by Maxim Smirnov (Wilsonville, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A noise reduction circuit that performs demosaic-based noise reduction on image data. The noise reduction circuit includes a pre-demosaic circuit, a kernel calculation circuit, a noise filtering circuit, and a blending circuit. The pre-demosaic circuit generates a de-mosaiced version of an image. The kernel calculation circuit generates a denoising kernel for at least one pixel of the image and a bilateral kernel for the at least on...