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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 12555350 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026

Filed:

Mar. 09, 2023

Cloud removal by illumination normalization and interpolation weighted by cloud probabilities

Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Peder Andreas Olsen, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);

Roberto De Moura Estevao Filho, Rio de Janeiro, BR;

Leonardo De Oliveira Nunes, Rio de Janiero, BR;

Assignee:

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:

David Foster

Newport IP, LLC

Primary Examiner:

Duy M Dang

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 10/60 (2022.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G06V 10/26 (2022.01); G06V 10/56 (2022.01); G06V 10/74 (2022.01); G06V 20/13 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 10/60 (2022.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G06V 10/26 (2022.01); G06V 10/56 (2022.01); G06V 10/761 (2022.01); G06V 20/13 (2022.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01);
Abstract

Clouds in a satellite image are replaced with a prediction of what was occluded by those clouds. The cloudy portion of the image is interpolated from a series of satellite images taken over time, some of which are cloud-free in the target image's cloudy portion. In some configurations, clouds are removed taking into account each pixel's availability—a measure of certainty that a pixel is cloud-free. Furthermore, these images may have been taken under different amounts of illumination, making it difficult to determine whether a difference between two images is due to a change in illumination or a change to the location. The effect of illumination on each image is removed before interpolating the cloudy portion of the image. In some configurations, removing the effect of illumination also takes into account pixel availability.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Olsen, Peder. (2026). Cloud removal by illumination normalization and interpolation weighted by cloud probabilities (U.S. Patent No. 12555350). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12555350

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