US Patent Issued to Adobe on Dec. 2 for "Parametric composite image harmonization" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,417, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Parametric composite image harmonization" was invented by Michael Yanis Gharbi (San Francisco), Zhihao Xia (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Elya Shechtman (Seattle), Ke Wang (Berkeley, Calif.) and He Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing system employs a parametric model for image harmonization of composite images. The parametric model employs a two-stage approach to harmonize an input composite image. At a first stage, a color curve prediction model predicts color curve parameters for the composite image. At a second stage, the composit...