US Patent Issued to Canon U.S.A. on Sept. 8 for "Using luminance distributions to detect best areas of an image for prediction of noise levels" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,233, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Using luminance distributions 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 and method are provided whereby one or more memories stores instructions which, when executed by one or more processors configures the one or more processors to perform operations including obtaining image data stored in memory of a processing device, defining one or more regions of the image to be processed based on luminance values of the region, ...