US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 17 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium, with synthesis of two inference results about an identical frame and with initializing of recurrent information" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,199, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium, with synthesis of two inference results about an identical frame and with initializing of recurrent information" was invented by Toru Kokura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present disclosure, an appropriate inference is made using a recurrent-type neural network in image restoration processing. An input-image-acquisition unit acquires input image data. A learning-parameter-acquisition unit acquires a learning parameter to learn an image restoration network. An initialization det...