US Patent Issued to KOREA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE on May 6 for "Image inpainting apparatus and image inpainting method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,488, issued on May 6, was assigned to KOREA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Image inpainting apparatus and image inpainting method" was invented by Sa Im Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Bo Eun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Han Mu Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Chung Il Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an image inpainting apparatus and an image inpainting method, the image inpainting apparatus including: a background inpainting part configured to generate a background-inpainted image by carrying out inpainting on a background with respect to an input imag...