ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,559, issued on March 25, was assigned to LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD (New Tech Park, Singapore).
"Image alteration system and method" was invented by John W. Nicholson (Cary, N.C.), Daryl C. Cromer (Raleigh, N.C.) and Howard Locker (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image alteration system includes a memory and one or more processors. The processors receive input image data that depicts a background environment, and segment the input image data to locate objects depicted in the background environment. The processors identify a set of one or more of the objects to modify, and generate output image data that depicts a modif...