ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,029, issued on April 22, was assigned to BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijing) and PEKING UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"Image inpainting method and electronic device" was invented by Yan Sun (Beijing), Yunhe Tong (Beijing), Tiankuo Shi (Beijing), Xue Chen (Beijing), Yanhui Xi (Beijing), Yuxin Bi (Beijing), Anjie Wang (Beijing), Songchao Tan (Beijing) and Xiaomang Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image inpainting method includes: acquiring an image to be inpainted based on depth information and texture information of a reference image, the image to be inpainted including at least one region to be inpainted; determining at le...