US Patent Issued to ADOBE on Feb. 24 for "Affordance-based reposing of an object in a scene" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,956, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Affordance-based reposing of an object in a scene" was invented by Sumith Kulal (Palo Alto, Calif.), Krishna Kumar Singh (San Jose, Calif.), Jimei Yang (Mountain View, Calif.), Jingwan Lu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Alexei Efros (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for inserting an object into a background are described. Examples of the systems and methods include obtaining a background image including a region for inserting the object, and encoding the background image to obtain an encoded background. A modified image is then generate...