US Patent Issued to Adobe on April 7 for "Synthesizing shadows in digital images utilizing diffusion models" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,186, issued on April 7, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Synthesizing shadows in digital images utilizing diffusion models" was invented by Soo Ye Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Scott Cohen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jianming Zhang (Campbell, Calif.) and Luis Figueroa (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images via scene-based editing to synthesize shadows for object(s). For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems receive a digital image depicting a scene. ...