US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 25 for "Cascade image processing for noise reduction" (Chinese, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,336, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cascade image processing for noise reduction" was invented by Quanmin Shen (Shenzhen, China), Zhongshan Wang (Shenzhen, China), Wen-Chun Feng (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chi Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for image processing that support noise reduction in low-light video sequences. The noise reduction is accomplished through a cascaded set of operations that are configured based on each set of operations location within the cascaded pipeline. The cascade may be implemented as a series of casca...