ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,726, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PIXTREE Co. LTD. (South Korea).
"Semantic image extrapolation method and apparatus" was invented by Jaeseob Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Sungul Ryoo (Seoul, South Korea), Sehoon Son (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeongduck Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Hyosong Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a semantic image extrapolation method and a semantic image extrapolation apparatus. The present invention provides a technique for generating an empty region for image-extension in an image by using an extrapolated segmentation map and an inpainting technique. The present i...