US Patent Issued to CAREAR HOLDINGS on April 15 for "Multi-task text inpainting of digital images" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,688, issued on April 15, was assigned to CAREAR HOLDINGS LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Multi-task text inpainting of digital images" was invented by Vijay Kumar Baikampady Gopalkrishna (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Raja Bala (Pittsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-task text infilling system receives a digital image and identifies a region of interest of the image that contains original text. The system uses a machine learning model to determine, in parallel: a foreground image that includes the original text; a background image that omits the original text; and a binary mask that distinguishes foreground pixels from background pi...