US Patent Issued to Adobe on Oct. 7 for "Improving digital image inpainting utilizing plane panoptic segmentation and plane grouping" (Illinois, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,375, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Improving digital image inpainting utilizing plane panoptic segmentation and plane grouping" was invented by Yuqian Zhou (Urbana, Ill.), Connelly Barnes (Seattle), Sohrab Amirghodsi (Seattle) and Elya Shechtman (Seattle).

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 for accurately generating inpainted digital images utilizing a guided inpainting model guided by both plane panoptic segmentation and plane grouping. For example, the disclosed systems utilize a guided inpainting model to fil...