US Patent Issued to Adobe on June 2 for "Transformer-based image segmentation on mobile devices" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,176, issued on June 2, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Transformer-based image segmentation on mobile devices" was invented by Jingyuan Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Qing Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jimei Yang (Merced, Calif.), Yuhong Wu (Sammamish, Wash.) and Su Chen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating segmentation masks for a digital visual media item. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems generate, utilizing a neural network encoder, high-level features of a digital visual...