US Patent Issued to Adobe on June 23 for "Albedo reconstruction based on inverse shading prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,630, issued on June 23, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Albedo reconstruction based on inverse shading prediction" was invented by He Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jae Shin Yoon (San Jose, Calif.), Hyun Joon Jung (Monte Sereno, Calif.) and Xin Sun (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various disclosed embodiments are directed to deriving an albedo output image from an input image based on deriving an inverse shading map. For example, an input image can be a photograph of a human face (i.e., the geometric features) with RGB values representing the color values of the face as well as pixels representing sh...