US 11,694,306 B2
Image processing apparatus and method of operating the same
Sangwook Baek, Suwon-si (KR); Yongsup Park, Suwon-si (KR); Sangmi Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Youngo Park, Suwon-si (KR); and Kwangpyo Choi, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Apr. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/240,360.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0071913 (KR), filed on Jun. 12, 2020; and application No. 10-2020-0130458 (KR), filed on Oct. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0390660 A1, Dec. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); G06N 3/0464 (2023.01); G06N 3/045 (2023.01)
CPC G06T 5/001 (2013.01) [G06N 3/045 (2023.01); G06N 3/0464 (2023.01); G06T 3/4046 (2013.01); G06T 3/4053 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
12. A method of operating an image processing apparatus, the method comprising:
extracting feature information of an input image using a feature extraction network; and
generating an output image by processing the input image, by using an image quality processing network comprising one or more modulation blocks, wherein each modulation block among the one or more modulation blocks comprises:
a convolution layer performing a convolution operation between an input to the convolution layer and a kernel in the convolution layer and output a feature map based on the convolution operation,
a modulation layer receiving the feature map output from the convolution layer as input and generating a modulated feature map by modulating the feature map based on the feature information of the input image; and
an activation layer receiving the modulated feature map and generating an output by applying an activation function to the modulated feature map.