US Patent Issued to Google on Jan. 13 for "Depth-aware photo editing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,897, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Depth-aware photo editing" was invented by Tim Phillip Wantland (San Francisco), Brandon Charles Barbello (Mountain View, Calif.), Christopher Max Breithaupt (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael John Schoenberg (Mountain View, Calif.), Adarsh Prakash Murthy Kowdle (Mountain View, Calif.), Bryan Woods (Mountain View, Calif.) and Anshuman Kumar (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The methods and systems described herein provide for depth-aware image editing and interactive features. In particular, a computer application may provide image-related ...