US Patent Issued to Adobe on Nov. 25 for "Generating shadows for objects in two-dimensional images utilizing a plurality of shadow maps" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,172, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating shadows for objects in two-dimensional images utilizing a plurality of shadow maps" was invented by Yannick Hold-Geoffroy (Quebec City), Vojtech Krs (West Lafayette, Ind.), Radomir Mech (Mountain View, Calif.), Nathan Carr (San Jose, Calif.) and Matheus Gadelha (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 modify two-dimensional images via scene-based editing using three-dimensional representations of the two-dimensional images. For instance, in one o...