US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Aug. 11 for "Real time film grain rendering and parameter estimation" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,810, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Real time film grain rendering and parameter estimation" was invented by Daizong Tian (Evanston, Ill.), Jingxian Wang (Evanston, Ill.), Kaixuan Zhang (Evanston, Ill.) and Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for film grain rendering includes receiving, by a computing system a first image. The method also includes modeling, by a processor of the computing system, film grains for the image. The method also includes deriving, by the processor, second order statistics for the film grains. The method also includes s...