ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,592, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Non-linear latent filter techniques for image editing" was invented by Ratheesh Kalarot (San Jose, Calif.), Wei-An Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Baldo Faieta (San Francisco) and Shabnam Ghadar (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods use a non-linear latent filter neural network for editing an image. An image editing system trains a first neural network by minimizing a loss based upon a predicted attribute value for a target attribute in a training image. The image editing system obtains a latent space representation of an input image to b...