US Patent Issued to ADOBE on July 14 for "Scene re-lighting using direct shading control" (Canadian, British, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,557, issued on July 14, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Scene re-lighting using direct shading control" was invented by Peter Koppany Kocsis (Josef-Zauser-Weg, Germany), Yannick Hold-Geoffroy (Quebec City), Julien Olivier Victor Philip (London) and Kalyan K Sunkavalli (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, apparatus, and system for scene re-lighting using direct shading control include obtaining an input image and a lighting direction indicator that describes a lighting direction. A direct shading map is generated based on the input image and the ...