US Patent Issued to Google on Jan. 20 for "Photo relighting and background replacement based on machine learning models" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,744, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Photo relighting and background replacement based on machine learning models" was invented by Chloe LeGendre (Culver City, Calif.), Paul Debevec (Culver City, Calif.), Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello (San Francisco), Rohit Kumar Pandey (Mountain View, Calif.), Sergio Orts Escolano (San Francisco), Christian Haene (Berkeley, Calif.) and Sofien Bouaziz (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods related to applying lighting models to images are provided. An example method includes receiving, via a computing device, an image comprising a...