US Patent Issued to Adobe on July 29 for "Generating modified digital images utilizing nearest neighbor fields from patch matching operations of alternate digital images" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,915, issued on July 29, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating modified digital images utilizing nearest neighbor fields from patch matching operations of alternate digital images" was invented by Sohrab Amirghodsi (Seattle), Aliakbar Darabi (New Castle, Wash.) and Elya Shechtman (Seattle).

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 for generating modified digital images by utilizing a patch match algorithm to generate nearest neighbor fields for a second digital image based on a nearest neighbor field associated with a first digital ...