US Patent Issued to East China Jiaotong University on Sept. 2 for "Image inpainting method and system guided by image structure and texture information" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,343, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to East China Jiaotong University (Nanchang, China).

"Image inpainting method and system guided by image structure and texture information" was invented by Gang Yang (Nanchang, China), Lizhen Dai (Nanchang, China), Hailong Yang (Nanchang, China), Jie Sheng (Nanchang, China), Hui Yang (Nanchang, China), Rongxiu Lu (Nanchang, China) and Fangping Xu (Nanchang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image inpainting method and system guided by an image structure and texture information. The method includes: constructing an image inpainting model with an interaction ability between the ima...