US Patent Issued to Adobe on Sept. 8 for "Seamless junction reconstruction" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,305, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Seamless junction reconstruction" was invented by Ankit Prabhakar Deogirikar (Bengaluru, India), Avinash Kumar (New Delhi), Kush Pandey (Aligarh, India) and Tarun Beri (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for extracting and tracing ridges at junctions, including confluences, corners, and terminals. For example, the disclosed systems generate, from a digital image, a pixel ridge using a distance transform and a depth-first traversal of pixels in the digital image...