US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 20 for "Learning-based lens flare removal" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,960, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Learning-based lens flare removal" was invented by Yicheng Wu (Houston), Qiurui He (Mountain View, Calif.), Tianfan Xue (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rahul Garg (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jiawen Chen (San Ramon, Calif.) and Jonathan T. Barron (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining an input image that contains a particular representation of lens flare, and processing the input image by a machine learning model to generate a de-flared image that includes the input image with at least part of the particular representation of lens flare rem...