ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,232, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Infrared light-guided portrait relighting" was invented by Jason Lawrence (Seattle), Supreeth Achar (Seattle) and Zhihao Xia (St. Louis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system includes a processor, a memory, a visible light camera configured to record a first image of a scene, and an infrared camera configured to record a second image of the scene. The processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to input the first image and the second image into a neural network. The neural network relights the first image, based on characteris...