ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,151, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Stroke-guided sketch vectorization" was invented by Vineet Batra (Pitam Pura, India), Matthew David Fisher (Burlingame, Calif.), Deepali Aneja (Seattle), Ashwani Chandil (Noida, India) and Ankit Phogat (Noida, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stroke-guided vectorization system is described that generates, from an input sketch and guide image depicting an approximate vector representation of the sketch, an aligned guide image depicting an improved vector representation of the sketch. To do so, the stroke-guided vectorization system determines black levels re...