US Patent Issued to Adobe on Oct. 27 for "Generative portrait shadow removal" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,077, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generative portrait shadow removal" was invented by Jae Shin Yoon (San Jose, Calif.), Zhixin Shu (San Jose, Calif.), Yannick Hold-Geoffroy (Quebec City), Xuaner Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Srujani Kamineni (San Francisco), Mengwei Ren (San Jose, Calif.), Krishna Kumar Singh (San Jose, Calif.) and He Zhang (San Jose, Calif.).

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 performs shadow removal and harmonizes lighting properties of a foreground with a background. Furthermore, the disc...