US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 24 for "Image super-resolution neural networks" (Canadian, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,757, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Image super-resolution neural networks" was invented by Cristina Nader Vasconcelos (Montreal), Ahmet Cengiz Oztireli (Zurich), Andrea Tagliasacchi (Toronto), Kevin Jordan Swersky (Toronto), Mark Jeffrey Matthews (Los Angeles) and Milad Olia Hashemi (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing an input image using a super-resolution neural network to generate an up-sampled image that is a higher resolution version of the input image. In one aspec...