US Patent Issued to Adobe on Oct. 21 for "Latent space based steganographic image generation" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,782, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Latent space based steganographic image generation" was invented by Shruti Agarwal (Berkeley, Calif.) and John Philip Collomosse (Pyrford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for latent space based steganographic image generation are described. A processing device, for instance, receives a digital image and a secret that includes a bit string. A pretrained encoder of an autoencoder generates an embedding of the digital image that includes latent code. A secret encoder is trained and utilized to generate an embedding of the secret to act as a l...