Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods of spatiotemporal image noise reduction for multispectral image data
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Application No.: US16901490Application Date: 2020-06-15
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Publication No.: US11265490B2Publication Date: 2022-03-01
- Inventor: Ilya Romanenko , Alex Hayes
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Blank Rome LLP
- Priority: GB1908517 20190613
- Main IPC: H04N5/357
- IPC: H04N5/357 ; H04N5/21 ; H04N5/33 ; G06T5/00 ; G06K9/00

Abstract:
Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices for spatiotemporal image noise reduction are disclosed, comprising: maintaining an accumulated image in memory; and obtaining a first plurality of multispectral images (e.g., RGB-IR images). For each image in the first plurality of multispectral images, the method may: calculate a multispectral guide image for the current image; calculate blending weights for the current image; apply the calculated blending weights to each channel of the current image to generate a denoised current image; and update the accumulated image based on pixel differences between the denoised current image and the accumulated image. In some embodiments, additional images (e.g., the accumulated image and/or other images captured prior to or after a given current image) may also be included in the denoising operations for a given current image. Finally, the method may generate a denoised output image for each input image, based on the updated accumulated image.
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