ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,303, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Image replacement inpainting" was invented by Nathan James Frey (Los Angeles) and Vinay Kotikalapudi Sriram (Boyds, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for replacing an object in an image. The method may include identifying a first object at a position within a first image, masking, based on the first image and the position of the first object, a target area to produce a masked image, generating, based on the masked image and an inpainting machine learning model, a second image different from the first image, the inpainting machine learning model bei...