US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Dec. 30 for "Photorealistic text inpainting for augmented reality using generative models" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,499, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Photorealistic text inpainting for augmented reality using generative models" was invented by Thomas Jonathan Stone (Zurich), Darkhan Zholmukhanov (Adliswil, Switzerland) and Dawid Michal Wegner (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods that use generative models (e.g., generative adversarial networks) to enable photorealistic text inpainting in augmented reality. One example application of the proposed systems is to perform augmented reality translation. For example, a user can operate an image capture device (e.g., camera, sma...