ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,741, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods regulating filter strength for temporal filtering" was invented by Michael Bleyer (Seattle), Christian Markus Maekelae (Redmond, Wash.) and Christopher Douglas Edmonds (Carnation, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for regulating temporal filtering strength is configurable to: (i) obtain a light level indicator indicating light level associated with a real-world environment; (ii) determine a motion compensation confidence indicator using a current image and a previous image; (iii) determine a filter weight by...