US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Sept. 9 for "Filtering with side-information using contextually-designed filters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,722, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Filtering with side-information using contextually-designed filters" was invented by Onur Guleryuz (San Francisco) and Debargha Mukherjee (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Obtaining a restored frame from a degraded frame includes obtaining, for a pixel of the degraded frame, magnitude features based on a first window centered at the pixel. A cardinality N of the magnitude features is at least 1. The magnitude features are used to obtain a pixel-adaptive filter. The pixel-adaptive filter is applied to the pixel to obtain a pixel of the restor...