US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 15 for "Bystander and attached object removal" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,858, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Bystander and attached object removal" was invented by Orly Liba (Mountain View, Calif.), Pedro Velez (Mountain View, Calif.), Siyang Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Huizhong Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Marcel Puyat (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yanan Bao (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media application detects a bystander in an initial image. The media application generates a bystander box that includes the bystander, wherein all pixels for the bystander are within the bystander box. The media application generates localizer boxes tha...