ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,014, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"User-guided image generation" was invented by Yijun Li (Seattle), Utkarsh Ojha (Madison, Wis.), Richard Zhang (San Francisco), Jingwan Lu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Elya Shechtman (Seattle) and Alexei A. Efros (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image generation system enables user input during the process of training a generative model to influence the model's ability to generate new images with desired visual features. A source generative model for a source domain is fine-tuned using training images in a target domain to provide an adapted generative ...