Patents by Inventor Jianming Zhang

Jianming Zhang 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: 12373954
    Abstract: Systems and methods for image segmentation are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure receive an image depicting an object; generate image features for the image by performing a convolutional self-attention operation that outputs a plurality of attention-weighted values for a convolutional kernel applied at a position of a sliding window on the image; and generate label data that identifies the object based on the image features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Yilin Wang, Chenglin Yang, Jianming Zhang, He Zhang, Zijun Wei, Zhe Lin
  • Patent number: 12367561
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for panoptically guiding digital image inpainting utilizing a panoptic inpainting neural network. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize a panoptic inpainting neural network to generate an inpainted digital image according to panoptic segmentation map that defines pixel regions corresponding to different panoptic labels. In some cases, the disclosed systems train a neural network utilizing a semantic discriminator that facilitates generation of digital images that are realistic while also conforming to a semantic segmentation. The disclosed systems generate and provide a panoptic inpainting interface to facilitate user interaction for inpainting digital images. In certain embodiments, the disclosed systems iteratively update an inpainted digital image based on changes to a panoptic segmentation map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Lin, Haitian Zheng, Elya Shechtman, Jianming Zhang, Jingwan Lu, Ning Xu, Qing Liu, Scott Cohen, Sohrab Amirghodsi
  • Patent number: 12367585
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for utilizing machine learning models to generate refined depth maps of digital images utilizing digital segmentation masks. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems generate a depth map for a digital image utilizing a depth estimation machine learning model, determine a digital segmentation mask for the digital image, and generate a refined depth map from the depth map and the digital segmentation mask utilizing a depth refinement machine learning model. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems generate first and second intermediate depth maps using the digital segmentation mask and an inverse digital segmentation mask and merger the first and second intermediate depth maps to generate the refined depth map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Jianming Zhang, Soo Ye Kim, Simon Niklaus, Yifei Fan, Su Chen, Zhe Lin
  • Patent number: 12367586
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for panoptically guiding digital image inpainting utilizing a panoptic inpainting neural network. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize a panoptic inpainting neural network to generate an inpainted digital image according to panoptic segmentation map that defines pixel regions corresponding to different panoptic labels. In some cases, the disclosed systems train a neural network utilizing a semantic discriminator that facilitates generation of digital images that are realistic while also conforming to a semantic segmentation. The disclosed systems generate and provide a panoptic inpainting interface to facilitate user interaction for inpainting digital images. In certain embodiments, the disclosed systems iteratively update an inpainted digital image based on changes to a panoptic segmentation map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Lin, Haitian Zheng, Elya Shechtman, Jianming Zhang, Jingwan Lu, Ning Xu, Qing Liu, Scott Cohen, Sohrab Amirghodsi
  • Patent number: 12367562
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for panoptically guiding digital image inpainting utilizing a panoptic inpainting neural network. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize a panoptic inpainting neural network to generate an inpainted digital image according to panoptic segmentation map that defines pixel regions corresponding to different panoptic labels. In some cases, the disclosed systems train a neural network utilizing a semantic discriminator that facilitates generation of digital images that are realistic while also conforming to a semantic segmentation. The disclosed systems generate and provide a panoptic inpainting interface to facilitate user interaction for inpainting digital images. In certain embodiments, the disclosed systems iteratively update an inpainted digital image based on changes to a panoptic segmentation map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Lin, Haitian Zheng, Elya Shechtman, Jianming Zhang, Jingwan Lu, Ning Xu, Qing Liu, Scott Cohen, Sohrab Amirghodsi
  • Publication number: 20250232575
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that generates object masks for digital objects portrayed in digital images utilizing a detection-masking neural network pipeline. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize detection heads of a neural network to detect digital objects portrayed within a digital image. In some cases, each detection head is associated with one or more digital object classes that are not associated with the other detection heads. Further, in some cases, the detection heads implement multi-scale synchronized batch normalization to normalize feature maps across various feature levels. The disclosed systems further utilize a masking head of the neural network to generate one or more object masks for the detected digital objects. In some cases, the disclosed systems utilize post-processing techniques to filter out low-quality masks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventors: Jason Wen Yong Kuen, Su Chen, Scott Cohen, Zhe Lin, Zijun Wei, Jianming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250232526
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for estimating the three-dimensional geometry of an object in a digital image by modeling the ground, object, and camera simultaneously. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems receive a two-dimensional digital image portraying an object. Further, the systems generate, utilizing a dense representation neural network, an estimate of an object-ground relationship of the object portrayed in the two-dimensional digital image and an estimate of camera parameters for the two-dimensional digital image. Additionally, the systems generate, utilizing a perspective field guided pixel height reprojection model, one or more of a three-dimensional point cloud or a depth map of the object from the estimated object-ground relationship and the estimated camera parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventors: Yunze Man, Jianming Zhang
  • Patent number: 12361512
    Abstract: This disclosure describes one or more implementations of a digital image semantic layout manipulation system that generates refined digital images resembling the style of one or more input images while following the structure of an edited semantic layout. For example, in various implementations, the digital image semantic layout manipulation system builds and utilizes a sparse attention warped image neural network to generate high-resolution warped images and a digital image layout neural network to enhance and refine the high-resolution warped digital image into a realistic and accurate refined digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Haitian Zheng, Zhe Lin, Jingwan Lu, Scott Cohen, Jianming Zhang, Ning Xu
  • Publication number: 20250217946
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images via scene-based editing using image understanding facilitated by artificial intelligence. For example, in one or more embodiments the disclosed systems utilize generative machine learning models to create modified digital images portraying human subjects. In particular, the disclosed systems generate modified digital images by performing infill modifications to complete a digital image or human inpainting for portions of a digital image that portrays a human. Moreover, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems perform reposing of subjects portrayed within a digital image to generate modified digital images. In addition, the disclosed systems in some embodiments perform facial expression transfer and facial expression animations to generate modified digital images or animations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Krishna Kumar Singh, Yijun Li, Jingwan Lu, Duygu Ceylan Aksit, Yangtuanfeng Wang, Jimei Yang, Tobias Hinz, Qing Liu, Jianming Zhang, Zhe Lin
  • Patent number: 12347080
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images via scene-based editing using image understanding facilitated by artificial intelligence. For example, in one or more embodiments the disclosed systems utilize generative machine learning models to create modified digital images portraying human subjects. In particular, the disclosed systems generate modified digital images by performing infill modifications to complete a digital image or human inpainting for portions of a digital image that portrays a human. Moreover, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems perform reposing of subjects portrayed within a digital image to generate modified digital images. In addition, the disclosed systems in some embodiments perform facial expression transfer and facial expression animations to generate modified digital images or animations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Krishna Kumar Singh, Yijun Li, Jingwan Lu, Duygu Ceylan Aksit, Yangtuanfeng Wang, Jimei Yang, Tobias Hinz, Qing Liu, Jianming Zhang, Zhe Lin
  • Patent number: 12347116
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that utilize a progressive refinement network to refine alpha mattes generated utilizing a mask-guided matting neural network. In particular, the disclosed systems can use the matting neural network to process a digital image and a coarse guidance mask to generate alpha mattes at discrete neural network layers. In turn, the disclosed systems can use the progressive refinement network to combine alpha mattes and refine areas of uncertainty. For example, the progressive refinement network can combine a core alpha matte corresponding to more certain core regions of a first alpha matte and a boundary alpha matte corresponding to uncertain boundary regions of a second, higher resolution alpha matte. Based on the combination of the core alpha matte and the boundary alpha matte, the disclosed systems can generate a final alpha matte for use in image matting processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Qihang Yu, Jianming Zhang, He Zhang, Yilin Wang, Zhe Lin, Ning Xu
  • Patent number: 12333731
    Abstract: Systems and methods for image segmentation are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure receive an image depicting an object; generate image features for the image by performing an atrous self-attention operation based on a plurality of dilation rates for a convolutional kernel applied at a position of a sliding window on the image; and generate label data that identifies the object based on the image features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Yilin Wang, Chenglin Yang, Jianming Zhang, He Zhang, Zijun Wei, Zhe Lin
  • Patent number: 12333691
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images via scene-based editing using image understanding facilitated by artificial intelligence. For example, in one or more embodiments the disclosed systems utilize generative machine learning models to create modified digital images portraying human subjects. In particular, the disclosed systems generate modified digital images by performing infill modifications to complete a digital image or human inpainting for portions of a digital image that portrays a human. Moreover, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems perform reposing of subjects portrayed within a digital image to generate modified digital images. In addition, the disclosed systems in some embodiments perform facial expression transfer and facial expression animations to generate modified digital images or animations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Qing Liu, Jianming Zhang, Krishna Kumar Singh, Scott Cohen, Zhe Lin
  • Patent number: 12333692
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images via multi-layered scene completion techniques facilitated by artificial intelligence. For instance, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems receive a digital image portraying a first object and a second object against a background, where the first object occludes a portion of the second object. Additionally, the disclosed systems pre-process the digital image to generate a first content fill for the portion of the second object occluded by the first object and a second content fill for a portion of the background occluded by the second object. After pre-processing, the disclosed systems detect one or more user interactions to move or delete the first object from the digital image. The disclosed systems further modify the digital image by moving or deleting the first object and exposing the first content fill for the portion of the second object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Daniil Pakhomov, Qing Liu, Zhihong Ding, Scott Cohen, Zhe Lin, Jianming Zhang, Zhifei Zhang, Ohiremen Dibua, Mariette Souppe, Krishna Kumar Singh, Jonathan Brandt
  • Patent number: 12299844
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for accurately, efficiently, and flexibly generating harmonized digital images utilizing a self-supervised image harmonization neural network. In particular, the disclosed systems can implement, and learn parameters for, a self-supervised image harmonization neural network to extract content from one digital image (disentangled from its appearance) and appearance from another from another digital image (disentangled from its content). For example, the disclosed systems can utilize a dual data augmentation method to generate diverse triplets for parameter learning (including input digital images, reference digital images, and pseudo ground truth digital images), via cropping a digital image with perturbations using three-dimensional color lookup tables (“LUTs”).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: He Zhang, Yifan Jiang, Yilin Wang, Jianming Zhang, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Sarah Kong, Su Chen, Sohrab Amirghodsi, Zhe Lin
  • Patent number: 12288279
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images via scene-based editing using image understanding facilitated by artificial intelligence. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems generate utilizing a segmentation neural network, an object mask for each object of a plurality of objects of a digital image. The disclosed systems detect a first user interaction with an object in the digital image displayed via a graphical user interface. The disclosed systems surface, via the graphical user interface, the object mask for the object in response to the first user interaction. The disclosed systems perform an object-aware modification of the digital image in response to a second user interaction with the object mask for the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Brandt, Scott Cohen, Zhe Lin, Zhihong Ding, Darshan Prasad, Matthew Joss, Celso Gomes, Jianming Zhang, Olena Soroka, Klaas Stoeckmann, Michael Zimmermann, Thomas Muehrke
  • Patent number: 12272127
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that generates object masks for digital objects portrayed in digital images utilizing a detection-masking neural network pipeline. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize detection heads of a neural network to detect digital objects portrayed within a digital image. In some cases, each detection head is associated with one or more digital object classes that are not associated with the other detection heads. Further, in some cases, the detection heads implement multi-scale synchronized batch normalization to normalize feature maps across various feature levels. The disclosed systems further utilize a masking head of the neural network to generate one or more object masks for the detected digital objects. In some cases, the disclosed systems utilize post-processing techniques to filter out low-quality masks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Wen Yong Kuen, Su Chen, Scott Cohen, Zhe Lin, Zijun Wei, Jianming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250103604
    Abstract: A computing device can receive a query that identifies a set of data to be processed and determine that a portion of the set of data resides in an external data system. The query system can request data identifiers associated with data objects of the set of data from the external data system and communicate the data identifiers to a data queue. The computing device can instruct one or more search nodes to retrieve the identifiers from the data queue. The search nodes can use the data identifiers to retrieve data objects from the external data system and process the data objects according to instructions received from the computing device. The search nodes can provide results of the processing to the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Alexandros Batsakis, Nitilaksha Satyaveera Halakatti, Ningxuan He, Prem Kumar Jayaraj, Manuel Gregorio Martinez, Balaji Rao, Jianming Zhang, Steve Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12260557
    Abstract: An image processing system generates an image mask from an image. The image is processed by an object detector to identify a region having an object, and the region is classified based on an object type of the object. A masking pipeline is selected from a number of masking pipelines based on the classification of the region. The region is processed using the masking pipeline to generate a region mask. An image mask for the image is generated using the region mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: adobe inc.
    Inventors: Zijun Wei, Yilin Wang, Jianming Zhang, He Zhang
  • Patent number: D1070778
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: DONGGUAN LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jianming Zhang, Xiaogang Liu, Rongzhe Guo