ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,729, issued on June 16, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Vectorizing digital images via image segmentation with gradients" was invented by Souymodip Chakraborty (Bangalore, India), Ankit Phogat (Noida, India), Jaswant Singh Ranawat (Chittorgarh, India) and Vineet Batra (Pitam Pura, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that generates a vectorized digital image of a raster image according to at least one gradient fill function. In particular, the disclosed systems generate a segmentation map of a raster digital image by using a...