ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,628, issued on May 20, was assigned to Shiseido Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"System and method for image transformation" was invented by Shuhui Jiang (Cambridge, Mass.), Aneesh Bhat (Cambridge, Mass.), Kai Ho Edgar Cheung (Malden, Mass.) and Yun Fu (Brookline, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for image transformation including receiving, from an electronic device, an input image having represented therein an object having a predefined region with a selected characteristic, extracting, from the input image, an isolated image corresponding to the predefined region, inputting the isolated image into a baseline generator, trained by a...