ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,529, issued on June 24, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Machine learning-based object-centric approach to image manipulation" was invented by Vickie Youmin Wu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Xiaojia Song (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for processing images is disclosed. The technique includes determining depth information for an image; identifying a depth threshold; and modifying content of the image based on a comparison of the depth information and the depth threshold."

The patent was filed on Dec. 27, 2021, under Application No. 17/562,913.

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