ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,426, issued on July 14, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Artificial intelligence techniques for extrapolating HDR panoramas from LDR low FOV images" was invented by Mohammad Reza Karimi Dastjerdi (Quebec, Canada), Yannick Hold-Geoffroy (Quebec City), Sai Bi (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan Eisenmann (San Francisco) and Jean-Francois Lalonde (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a computing system accesses a field of view (FOV) image that has a field of view less than 360 degrees and has low dynamic range (LDR) values. The computing system estimates lighting parameters from a scene depicted in the...