ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,157, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Editing digital images based on masks" was invented by Handong Zhao (Cupertino, Calif.), Zijun Wei (San Jose, Calif.), Trung Huu Bui (San Jose, Calif.), Jing Shi (San Jose, Calif.) and Chongyang Gao (Evanston, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In implementation of techniques for editing digital images based on masks, a computing device implements an image combination system to receive a first digital image, a second digital image, a prompt describing an edit to the first digital image, and a mask identifying a portion of the second digital image. Using a machine ...