ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,829, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Multi-modal image editing" was invented by Shaoan Xie (Pittsburgh), Zhifei Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Zhe Lin (Clyde Hill, Wash.) and Tobias Hinz (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for multi-modal image editing are provided. In one aspect, a system and method for multi-modal image editing includes identifying an image, a prompt identifying an element to be added to the image, and a mask indicating a first region of the image for depicting the element. The system then generates a partially noisy image map that includes noise in t...