Disney patents AI tool that adds realistic camera noise to clean images
Disney has been granted a patent for a system that uses machine learning to create realistic digital noise for images. The technology takes a clean picture and specific camera settings to generate a noise map that mimics how a real camera would capture grain or static.
In the filing’s own words
A system includes a hardware processor, a system memory storing a software code, and a machine learning (ML) model trained using style loss to predict image noise. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to receive a clean image and at least one noise setting of a camera used to capture a version of the clean image that includes noise, and provide the clean image and the at least one noise setting as a noise generation input to the ML model. The hardware processor is further configured to execute the software code to generate, using the ML model and based on the noise generation input, a synthesized noise map for renoising the clean image.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A system comprising: a hardware processor; and a system memory storing a software code; the hardware processor configured to execute the software code to: train a machine learning (ML) model using a discriminator to predict image noise by: providing a test input to the discriminator, the test input being one of: (i) a test clean image, a test synthesized noise map generated by the ML model based on the test clean image and at least one test noise setting of a test camera used to capture a noisy version of the test clean image, and the at least one test noise setting, or (ii) the test clean image, a real noise map derived from the noisy version of the test clean image, and the at least one test noise setting; and determining, using the discriminator, whether the test input includes the real noise map or the test synthesized noise map.
Facts
- Company
- Disney (Disney Enterprises, Inc.)
- Official title
- Machine learning model-based image noise synthesis
- Patent number
- US12749165B2
- Application number
- 18386827
- Filed
- Nov 3, 2023
- Granted
- Sep 29, 2026
- Inventors
- 7
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 5/73 Physics & computingG06T 5/50 Physics & computingG06T 2207/10024 Physics & computingG06T 2207/20084 Physics & computingMore from Disney in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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