G06T 5/20
Image enhancement or restoration: using local operators
Official title: using local operators
G06T5/20 (Image enhancement or restoration: using local operators) appears on 5,390 US grants and 5,562 published applications in this corpus.
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 284 | 270 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Speckle aware clinical decision support system for retinal diseases6 Oct 2026US 12,751,614 B2
- Ultrasonic diagnostic system and ultrasound image processing method6 Oct 2026US 12,755,341 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Computer script for processing images and use thereof in a method for facies image determination6 Oct 2026US 12,755,356 B2Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras
- Image processing apparatus and image processing method6 Oct 2026US 12,755,361 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Evaluation method, semiconductor device manufacturing method, and evaluation system6 Oct 2026US 12,755,375 B2Kioxia Corporation
- Debanding using film grain synthesis8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311296 A1Netflix, Inc.
- Image processing apparatus, mobile robot, shadow correction method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with shadow correction program8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311297 A1Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Detecting a cropped image based on an object segmentation mask8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311338 A1Capital One Services, LLC
- Collaborative texture filtering8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311415 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Systems and methods of addressing compression artifacts in video streams1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295407 A1Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- High speed outline smoothing method and apparatus including the operation of shifting bits of the current, preceding, and succeeding lines left and right425US 5,870,504 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1999
- Method of improving a digital image295US 5,991,456 AScience and Technology Corporation · 1999
- Post-processing generation of focus/defocus effects for computer graphics images259US 6,034,690 AU. S. Philips Corporation · 2000
- Method and system for surgical tool localization during anatomical surgery255US 9,905,000 B2Sony Corporation · 2018
- Method of digital image enhancement and sharpening231US 6,879,735 B1University of Utah Reasearch Foundation · 2005