US Patent Issued to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS on May 12 for "Method and image processing device for improving signal-to-noise ratio of image frame sequences" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,338, issued on May 12, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).

"Method and image processing device for improving signal-to-noise ratio of image frame sequences" was invented by Kai Walter (Schriesheim, Germany) and Constantin Kappel (Schriesheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improving signal-to-noise of image frames is provided. The method includes estimating a representative velocity of an optical flow in an image frame sequence. The method also includes determining an interpolation factor from the representative velocity of the optical flow. The method also includes employing a trained ...