ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,682, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Photorealistic image color style transfer compression" was invented by Han Gong (Norwich, Great Britain) and Alex Hayes (Ely, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Existing digital image color style transfer encoding methods are often forced to compromise between performing artifact-free local image processing and performing sufficiently expressive global image processing. Moreover, such existing image style encoding methods may be under-constrained (thereby producing more visible artifacts in stylized output images than would be desired) or over-constrai...