US Patent Issued to Korea University Research and Business Foundation on April 7 for "Method for converting near infrared image to RGB image and apparatus for same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,168, issued on April 7, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for converting near infrared image to RGB image and apparatus for same" was invented by Jong Ok Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Tae Sung Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for converting a near-infrared image into an RGB image includes: (a) receiving near-infrared image data to be converted into an RGB image and inputting the received data to the first network; (b) extracting, by the first network, feature data of a near-infrared image from the input near-infrared image data; and (c) out...