US Patent Issued to SK TELECOM on May 26 for "Image inpainting method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,797, issued on May 26, was assigned to SK TELECOM Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image inpainting method and device" was invented by Jong Kil Yun (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Won Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jeong Yeon Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Ho Hur (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an image inpainting method and an image inpainting device. The present disclosure in at least one embodiment provides a method of inpainting an image area obscured by an object included in an image, including selecting one or more frames among input frames of the image, wherein each of the one or more f...