US Patent Issued to Adobe on Feb. 24 for "Generating non-destructive synthetic lens blur with in-focus edge rendering" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,768, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating non-destructive synthetic lens blur with in-focus edge rendering" was invented by Joshua Bury (Grants Pass, Ore.) and Richard Case (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for generating a lens blur effect in a digital image with in-focus edge rendering. The disclosed system generates a focal matte indicating an in-focus range of depth values of a digital image based on a focus region and a depth map of the digital image. The disclosed system generates a layered ...