US Patent Issued to Adobe on July 1 for "Generating alpha mattes utilizing deep learning" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,116, issued on July 1, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating alpha mattes utilizing deep learning" was invented by Qihang Yu (Baltimore), Jianming Zhang (Campbell, Calif.), He Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Yilin Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.) and Ning Xu (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that utilize a progressive refinement network to refine alpha mattes generated utilizing a mask-guided matting neural network. In particular, the disclosed systems can use the matting neural network to proc...