ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,060, issued on April 22, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Splatting-based digital image synthesis" was invented by Simon Niklaus (San Jose, Calif.) and Jiawen Chen (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital image synthesis techniques are described that leverage splatting, i.e., forward warping. In one example, a first digital image and a first optical flow are received by a digital image synthesis system. A first splat metric and a first merge metric are constructed by the digital image synthesis system that defines a weighted map of respective pixels. From this, the digital image synthesis system produce...