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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Maxim Smirnov, Wilsonville, OR (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A noise reduction circuit that performs demosaic-based noise reduction on image data. The noise reduction circuit includes a pre-demosaic circuit, a kernel calculation circuit, a noise filtering circuit, and a blending circuit. The pre-demosaic circuit generates a de-mosaiced version of an image. The kernel calculation circuit generates a denoising kernel for at least one pixel of the image and a bilateral kernel for the at least one pixel of the image using the de-mosaiced version of the image. The noise filtering circuit performs noise filtering of the image using the denoising kernel to generate a first de-noised version of the image, and performs noise filtering of the image using the bilateral kernel to generate a second de-noised version of the image. The blending circuit blends the first de-noised version with the second de-noised version to generate an output de-noised version of the image.
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