US Patent Issued to POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION on Feb. 17 for "Inverse kernel-based defocus deblurring method and apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,206, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Inverse kernel-based defocus deblurring method and apparatus" was invented by Seung Yong Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeong Seok Son (Pohang-si, South Korea), Sung Hyun Cho (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Jun Yong Lee (Pohang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method of effectively deblurring a defocus blur in an input image based on an inverse kernel. The defocus deblurring method includes: generating, by an encoder network, an input feature map by encoding the input image; ...