US Patent Issued to Adobe on Oct. 28 for "Texture-preserving shadow removal in digital images utilizing generating inpainting models" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,243, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Texture-preserving shadow removal in digital images utilizing generating inpainting models" was invented by Soo Ye Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Scott Cohen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jianming Zhang (Campbell, Calif.), Luis Figueroa (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhihong Ding (Fremont, 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 digital images via scene-based editing to remove a shadow for an object. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclos...