US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 3 for "Noise reduction circuit with blending of bilateral filtering and machine learning filtering" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,151, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc..

"Noise reduction circuit with blending of bilateral filtering and machine learning filtering" was invented by Maxim Smirnov (Wilsonville, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to an image processing circuit that performs noise reduction on image data. The image processing circuit includes a noise reduction circuit with a kernel calculation circuit, a noise filtering circuit, and a blending circuit. The kernel calculation circuit generates a machine learning (ML) kernel for at least one pixel of an image and a bilateral kernel for the at least one pixel of the image. T...