ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,015, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image restoration system and image restoration method" was invented by Masayoshi Ishikawa (Tokyo), Sota Komatsu (Tokyo), Yasutaka Toyoda (Tokyo) and Shinichi Shinoda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image quality improvement system includes: an image quality improvement unit that improves the image quality of a low quality image; a deformation prediction unit that predicts a deformation amount that has occurred between a first low quality image and a different second low quality image, included in a series of input low quality images; and a deformation ...