US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on May 12 for "Using stable diffusion to produce background-free images conforming to target color" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,436, issued on May 12, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Using stable diffusion to produce background-free images conforming to target color" was invented by Sophia Zalewski (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating custom team emblems using stable diffusion based on input text describing a desired image. A circle is overlaid in the center of a pure-color background representing each team's "color" and used as the input to stable diffusion img2img to produce emblems. This produces high-quality emblem outputs that generally match the input color."

The patent was filed on Oct. 9...