ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,232, issued on July 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Generative image acquisition" was invented by Dehua Cui (Redmond, Wash.), Albert Joseph Kishan Thambiratnam (Redmond, China) and Lin Su (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for generative image acquisition. A query can be received. A first set of images retrieved according to the query can be obtained. It is can be determined that the first set of images includes a first image that partially satisfies the query. A missing component of the first image compared to the query can be ...