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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Maxim Smirnov, San Jose, CA (US);
David R. Pope, Campbell, CA (US);
Henryk K. Blasinski, Lodz, PL;
Kaiming Liu, Cupertino, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments relate to an image processing circuit that performs machine learning (ML) based noise reduction on image data. The image processing circuit includes a ML based noise reduction circuit that includes a hybrid kernel calculation circuit and a noise filtering circuit coupled to the hybrid kernel calculation circuit. The hybrid kernel calculation circuit generates, for each pixel of an image, a hybrid kernel by combining a ML kernel of each pixel of the image and a bilateral kernel of each pixel of the image. The noise filtering circuit performs, for each pixel of the image, noise filtering of the image using the hybrid kernel for each pixel of the image to generate a de-noised version of the image.