US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Sept. 22 for "Guided contextual attention map for inpainting tasks" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,755, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Guided contextual attention map for inpainting tasks" was invented by Noritsugu Kanazawa (Campbell, Calif.), Neal Wadhwa (Cambridge, Mass.), Yael Pritch Knaan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kfir Aberman (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for augmenting data can leverage one or more machine-learned models and contextual attention data to provide more realistic and efficient data augmentation. For example, systems and methods for inpainting can leverage a machine-learned model to generate predicted contextual attention data an...