US Patent Issued to Canon U.S.A. on March 3 for "Using activation maps to detect best areas of an image for prediction of noise levels" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,233, issued on March 3, was assigned to Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Using activation maps to detect best areas of an image for prediction of noise levels" was invented by Yevgeniy Gennadiy Guyduy (Bellmore, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus is provided which obtains and provides image data at a first scale as input to a first classifier trained based on images in the first scale to classify the image data in a first class or a second class, outputs, from the first classifier, activation map data and image array data, obtains at least target region of the image data at the first scale based on ...