US Patent Issued to Snap on Sept. 1 for "Light estimation using neural networks" (Ukrainian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,350, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Light estimation using neural networks" was invented by Gleb Dmukhin (Kyiv, Ukraine), Egor Nemchinov (London) and Yurii Volkov (Kyiv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A messaging system performs image processing to estimate lighting properties with neural networks for images provided by users of the messaging system. A method of estimating light properties includes receiving an input image with first lighting properties and processing the input image using a convolutional neural network to generate an estimate of the first lighting properties. The method...