ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,559, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Semantic image fill at high resolutions" was invented by Tobias Hinz (Ulm, Germany), Taesung Park (San Francisco), Richard Zhang (San Francisco), Matthew David Fisher (Burlingame, Calif.), Difan Liu (Amherst, Mass.) and Evangelos Kalogerakis (Sunderland, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semantic fill techniques are described that support generating fill and editing images from semantic inputs. A user input, for example, is received by a semantic fill system that indicates a selection of a first region of a digital image and a corresponding semantic label. The...