ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,231, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Document dewarping" was invented by Prasenjit Mondal (Daspur, India), Ayush Pant (Noida, India) and Sachin Soni (New Delhi).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for image dewarping are described. The method includes obtaining an image depicting a warped object and generating a parametric curve corresponding to an edge of the warped object. Then, a mesh overlay is generated for the warped object based on the parametric curve. A dewarped image is generated based on the mesh overlay."
The patent was filed on March 14, 2023, under Application No. 18/183...