US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Oct. 14 for "Guided restoration of video data using neural networks" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,656, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Guided restoration of video data using neural networks" was invented by Debargha Mukherjee (Cupertino, Calif.), Urvang Joshi (Mountain View, Calif.), Yue Chen (Kirkland, Wash.) and Sarah Parker (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Guided restoration is used to restore video data degraded from a video frame. The video frame is divided into restoration units (RUs) which each correspond to one or more blocks of the video frame. Restoration schemes are selected for each RU. The restoration schemes may indicate to use one of a plurality of neural network...