US Patent Issued to Blizzard Entertainment on Jan. 20 for "Machine learning-based 2D structured image generation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,789, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Blizzard Entertainment Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Machine learning-based 2D structured image generation" was invented by Shuo Chen (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.) and Denis Rogic (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for a multiple-phase process that uses machine learning (ML) models to produce a texturized version of an input image. During a first phase, using a pix2pix-based ML model, an automatically-generated image that depicts structured texture is generated based on an input image that visually identifies a plurality of image areas for the structured texture. Durin...