US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Color replacement for the colorblind using an automatic image colorization artificial intelligence model" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,816, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Color replacement for the colorblind using an automatic image colorization artificial intelligence model" was invented by Taihei Miyamoto (Nakano, Japan), Kaoru Ohashi (Sumida-ku, Japan), Akira Fujiu (Mitaka, Japan) and Kazuki Sekiguchi (Adachi-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for selectively replacing a color of an object in an original image due to color blindness of a viewer. The method includes identifying whether there are color groups that are hard to be distinguished at a border between one or ...