ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,010, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Machine learning of edge restoration following contrast suppression/material substitution" was invented by Rafael Wiemker (Kisdorf, Germany), Liran Goshen (Pardes-Hanna, Israel), Heike Carolus Ruppertshofen (Ahrensburg, Germany) and Tobias Klinder (Uelzen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to edge restoration. In order to improve a restoration of the artificially created cleansed edges, an apparatus is proposed to automatically restore image edges after digital subtraction of digital material substitution to ...