ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,269, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Propagating image changes between different views using a diffusion model" was invented by Chenyang Yuan (Cambridge, Mass.), Nikos Arechiga Gonzalez (San Mateo, Calif.) and Frank Permenter (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to altering an image and propagating changes to other images of the same object using a diffusion model. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring object images depicting an object. The method includes...