ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,211, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Bystander and attached shadow removal" was invented by Lucy Yu (Mountain View, Calif.), Andrew Liu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Orly Liba (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media application derives a bystander mask from an image by analyzing the image with a bystander segmentation model, wherein the image depicts a bystander and the bystander mask identifies a plurality of first pixels in the image that are associated with the bystander. The media derives a shadow mask for the bystander by analyzing the image with a shadow segmentation mod...