US Patent Issued to L'Oreal on June 9 for "Deep learning systems, devices, and methods for predicting high-dynamic range environment panoramas" (Canadian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,378, issued on June 9, was assigned to L'Oreal (Paris).

"Deep learning systems, devices, and methods for predicting high-dynamic range environment panoramas" was invented by Kin Ching Lydia Chau (Toronto), Panagiotis-Alexandros Bokaris (Paris), Ruowei Jiang (Mississauga, Canada), Zhi Yu (Toronto) and Tao Li (Sceaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of lighting estimation, and models therefor are provided including aspects to train such models. There is provided a lighting estimation model pre-trained using synthetic data to alleviate the costs and difficulty in obtaining real portrait image and HDR environment map paired ...