US Patent Issued to Adobe on Jan. 27 for "Dilating object masks to reduce artifacts during inpainting" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,625, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dilating object masks to reduce artifacts during inpainting" was invented by Qing Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Luis Figueroa (San Jose, Calif.) and Scott Cohen (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images via scene-based editing using image understanding facilitated by artificial intelligence. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems generate, utilizing a segmentation neural network and with...