ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,554, issued on June 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Conditional kernel prediction network and adaptive depth prediction for image and video processing" was invented by Anbang Yao (Beijing), Ming Lu (Beijing), Yikai Wang (Beijing), Yurong Chen (Beijing), Attila Tamas Afra (Satu Mare, Romania), Sungye Kim (Folsom, Calif.) and Karthik Vaidyanathan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are generally directed to a Conditional Kernel Prediction Network (CKPN) for image and video de-noising and other related image and video processing applications. Disclosed is an embodiment of a method for de-noi...