US Patent Issued to Canva on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods for implementing a blur visual effect" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,230, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Canva Pty Ltd (Surry Hills, Australia).

"Systems and methods for implementing a blur visual effect" was invented by Christopher James Cook (Ryde, Australia) and Oliver Daniel Richards (Northbridge, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a computer implemented method including: accessing source image data defining a set of source pixels for an image; selecting a first target pixel from a set of one or more target pixels, the set of one or more target pixels corresponding to one or more unique source pixels of the set of source pixels; and generating a first output pixel cor...