US Patent Issued to Faurecia IRYStec on June 2 for "Image colorization fidelity enhancement" (French, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,229, issued on June 2, was assigned to Faurecia IRYStec Inc. (Montreal).

"Image colorization fidelity enhancement" was invented by Tara Akhavan (Paris), Hyunjin Yoo (Nepean, Canada), Julien Muller (Paris), Pranjay Shyam (Montreal), Giovanni Mion (Montreal) and Jean Lorchat (Montreal, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for generating colorized image data for a single-channel image using a ML network, as well as a system and method for training the ML network. The image colorization method includes: obtaining single-channel image data representing a single-channel image; generating image feature data ...