US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES on June 23 for "Image editing for small masks" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,705, issued on June 23, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Image editing for small masks" was invented by Shamit Lal (Seattle), Ying Wang (Bothell, Wash.), Yusheng Xie (Redwood City, Calif.) and Ashwin Swaminathan (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are generally described for improved image editing for small masks. A first source image may be received. First mask data identifying first pixels of the first source image may be received. A ratio between a size of the first mask data and the first source image may be below a threshold. A second source image that includes the first pixels of the fi...