US Patent Issued to Faurecia IRYStec on July 14 for "Noise, flare, and/or other degradation suppression and/or removal for images" (Canadian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,431, issued on July 14, was assigned to Faurecia IRYStec Inc. (Montreal).

"Noise, flare, and/or other degradation suppression and/or removal for images" was invented by Pranjay Shyam (Montreal), Hyunjin Yoo (Nepean, Canada) and Tara Akhavan (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is provided for enhancing an image using a machine learning model. The method includes: obtaining image data; and generating enhanced image data representing an enhanced image based on performing inference for the machine learning model. The machine learning model has an inference encoder configured to generate latent image feature data bas...