US Patent Issued to Adobe on April 22 for "Machine learning based controllable animation of still images" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,992, issued on April 22, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Machine learning based controllable animation of still images" was invented by Kuldeep Kulkarni (Bengaluru, India) and Aniruddha Mahapatra (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for machine learning based controllable animation of still images is provided. In one embodiment, a still image including a fluid element is obtained. Using a flow refinement machine learning model, a refined dense optical flow is generated for the still image based on a selection mask that includes the fluid element and a dense optical flow generated from a mo...