US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 23 for "Image in-painting for irregular holes using partial convolutions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,605, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Image in-painting for irregular holes using partial convolutions" was invented by Guilin Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Fitsum A. Reda (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kevin Shih (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ting-Chun Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Tao (Los Altos, Calif.) and Bryan Catanzaro (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network architecture is disclosed for performing image in-painting using partial convolution operations. The neural network processes an image and a corresponding mask that identifies holes in the image utilizing partial convolution...