US Patent Issued to Adobe on March 24 for "Interactively refining a digital image depth map for non destructive synthetic lens blur" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,163, issued on March 24, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Interactively refining a digital image depth map for non destructive synthetic lens blur" was invented by Joshua Bury (Grants Pass, Ore.) and Richard Case (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for generating a lens blur effect in a digital image with interactive depth map refinement. The disclosed system generates a fused depth map comprising a combination of foreground depth values and background depth values from a layered depth map of pixels of a digital image and a...