US Patent Issued to Adobe on July 29 for "Generating soft object shadows for general shadow receivers within digital images using geometry-aware buffer channels" (American, Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,034, issued on July 29, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating soft object shadows for general shadow receivers within digital images using geometry-aware buffer channels" was invented by Jianming Zhang (Campbell, Calif.), Yichen Sheng (West Lafayette, Ind.), Julien Philip (London), Yannick Hold-Geoffroy (Quebec City), Xin Sun (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and He Zhang (San Jose, 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 generates object shadows for digital images utilizing corresponding geometry-aware buffer channels. For instan...