US Patent Issued to Adobe on March 17 for "Generating masked regions of an image using a predicted user intent" (California, Utah, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,846, issued on March 17, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating masked regions of an image using a predicted user intent" was invented by Brian Price (Pleasant Grove, Utah), Yifei Fan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Joshua Myers-Dean (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for predicting a user's intent to generate a masked region of an image based on a user gesture. The method may include receiving a user interaction corresponding to a region in an image. The user interaction is used to select the object in the image. The method further includes generating a feature map using a first m...