US Patent Issued on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for diverse image inpainting" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,157, issued on Nov. 3.

"Systems and methods for diverse image inpainting" was invented by Dongsik Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Jeong-Gi Kwak (Seoul, South Korea) and Hanseok Ko (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for image inpainting. A system receives a masked input image and a mask. The system generates, via a pretrained model, a first pass inpainted image based on the masked input image. The system generates a plurality of variants of the first pass inpainted image. The system generates, via a first encoder, a vector representation of the masked input image. The ...