US Patent Issued to Adobe on Sept. 8 for "Interactively adjusting light source brightness in digital images with non-destructive synthetic lens blur" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,228, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Interactively adjusting light source brightness in digital images with 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 light source adjustment. The disclosed system determines a gradient mask by detecting edges of a luminance map comprising luminance values of pixels in a digital image. The disclosed system dete...