ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,315, issued on Sept. 9.

"System and method of dual-pixel image synthesis and image background manipulation" was invented by Abdullah Abuolaim (North York, Canada), Mahmoud Afifi (North York, Canada) and Michael Brown (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of determining synthetic dual-pixel data, performing deblurring, predicting dual pixel views, and view synthesis. The method including: receiving an input image; determining synthetic dual-pixel data using a trained artificial neural network with the input image as input to the trained artificial neural network, the trained artificial neural network includes a ...