Patents by Inventor Alec Stefan JACOBSON

Alec Stefan JACOBSON has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9202431
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for transferring image edits from a source image to target images. In one embodiment, a warp application receives a user-selected region of interest in a source image and determines for the region of interest content-aware bounded weight functions and seed locations for the same. For each of the target images, the warping application initializes a linear blend skinning subspace warp to a projection onto a feature space of a piecewise affine map from scale invariant feature transform features of the source image to the target image. After initializing the warps, the warping application iteratively optimizes the warps by applying the inverse compositional Lucas-Kanade procedure and using the content-aware weight functions in said procedure. Edits made to the source image may automatically be transferred to target images by warping those edits via the optimized warp function for the respective target images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Sorkine-Hornung, Kaan Yucer, Alec Stefan Jacobson, Olga Sorkine-Hornung
  • Publication number: 20140104295
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for transferring image edits from a source image to target images. In one embodiment, a warp application receives a user-selected region of interest in a source image and determines for the region of interest content-aware bounded weight functions and seed locations for the same. For each of the target images, the warping application initializes a linear blend skinning subspace warp to a projection onto a feature space of a piecewise affine map from scale invariant feature transform features of the source image to the target image. After initializing the warps, the warping application iteratively optimizes the warps by applying the inverse compositional Lucas-Kanade procedure and using the content-aware weight functions in said procedure. Edits made to the source image may automatically be transferred to target images by warping those edits via the optimized warp function for the respective target images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander SORKINE-HORNUNG, Kaan YUCER, Alec Stefan JACOBSON, Olga SORKINE-HORNUNG