ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,969, issued on July 7, was assigned to ZHEJIANG DAHUA TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).
"Systems and methods for image filtering" was invented by Xue Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Cheng Fang (Hangzhou, China), Dong Jiang (Hangzhou, China), Jucai Lin (Hangzhou, China) and Jun Yin (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for image filtering. The method may include obtaining an initial image block from a reconstructed image; determining at least one candidate image block by performing a filtering operation on the initial image block using at least one trained machine learning mod...