ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,691, issued on June 30, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Preserving detail in denoised images for content generation systems and applications" was invented by Yaobin Ouyang (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches presented herein provide for the maintaining of fine details that might be removed by a denoiser used to reduce an amount of noise in an image. An input image can be provided to a denoiser, and can also can be simultaneously processed to extract pixel data that may correspond to fine detail or high frequency features. Individual pixels of an image can have a value determined for a material prop...