Patents by Inventor Scott Cohen
Scott Cohen 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).
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Publication number: 20260203677Abstract: The present disclosure describes platforms and systems designed and configured as a collaboration portal that functions as a socialization and interpretation “layer” that is configured to be added to a modern BI or data technology stack to extract its full value. Collaboration portals designed and configured according to the present disclosure may be configured to address the problem of underutilized BI resources by providing technical solutions for aggregating and socializing insights across existing BI tools and across organizational divisions, for example, collaborating, discussing, sharing, socializing, etc. a plurality of insights generated on a plurality of disparate BI tools or other software programs via a central collaboration portal with a plurality of users.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2025Publication date: July 16, 2026Inventors: Danielle Giandomenico Job, Kurt Ryan Peters, Scott Cohen, Filipe Rodrigues, Princewill Ehiriudu
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Publication number: 20260195948Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images via scene-based editing to synthesize shadows for object(s). For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems receive a digital image depicting a scene. The disclosed systems access an object mask of the object depicting in the digital image. The disclosed systems further combine the object mask, the digital image, and a noise representation to generate a combined representation. Moreover, the disclosed systems generate a shadow for the object from the combined representation and further generates the modified digital image by combining the shadow with the digital image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2026Publication date: July 9, 2026Inventors: Soo Ye Kim, Zhe Lin, Scott Cohen, Jianming Zhang, Luis Figueroa
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Patent number: 12669914Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 27, 2023Date of Patent: June 30, 2026Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Qing Liu, Jianming Zhang, Krishna Kumar Singh, Scott Cohen, Zhe Lin
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Patent number: 12646188Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that implement depth-aware object move operations for digital image editing. For instance, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems determine a first object depth for a first object portrayed within a digital image and a second object depth for a second object portrayed within the digital image. Additionally, the disclosed systems move the first object to create an overlap area between the first object and the second object within the digital image. Based on the first object depth and the second object depth, the disclosed systems modify the digital image to occlude the first object or the second object within the overlap area.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2023Date of Patent: June 2, 2026Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Zhihong Ding, Scott Cohen, Matthew Joss, Jianming Zhang, Darshan Prasad, Celso Gomes, Jonathan Brandt
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Publication number: 20260134545Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for performing a plurality of image segmentation tasks via a multi-task segmentation neural network. The disclosed system extracts, utilizing an image encoder neural network, encoded feature maps from a digital image. The disclosed system generates, utilizing a pixel decoder neural network, a set of mask features from the encoded feature maps generated by the image encoder neural network. Additionally, the disclosed system generates, utilizing a plurality of query decoder neural networks in connection with a plurality of segmentation tasks for the digital image, a plurality of object segmentation masks from the set of mask features generated by the pixel decoder neural network according to a plurality of separate sets of learned queries.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2024Publication date: May 14, 2026Inventors: Jason Wen Yong Kuen, Zijun Wei, Kangning Liu, Brian Price, Hyun Joon Jung, Scott Cohen
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Publication number: 20260134547Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for selectively refining region masks for separate connected regions in a base image mask. The disclosed system determines a plurality of bounding boxes indicating a plurality of separate connected masked regions corresponding to one or more objects in a base mask of a digital image. The disclosed system generates a plurality of separate region masks from the plurality of bounding boxes. The disclosed system also generates, utilizing a mask refinement neural network, a plurality of refined region masks from the plurality of separate region masks. Additionally, the disclosed system combines the plurality of refined region masks into a final mask for the digital image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2024Publication date: May 14, 2026Inventors: Zijun Wei, Jason Wen Yong Kuen, Kangning Liu, Seyed Morteza Safdarnejad, Xingtai Li, Chih-Yao Hsieh, Betty Leong, Hyun Joon Jung, Scott Cohen
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Patent number: 12626429Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that detects shadows, removes shadows, and synthesizes shadows in a joint-framework. In particular, the disclosed systems access an object mask of an object and a digital image depicting the object and a shadow of the object. Furthermore, the disclosed systems perform object-centered shadow detection and removal to generate a modified digital image without the shadow by utilizing a shadow analyzer model. Moreover, the disclosed systems receive a user interaction to manipulate an object and generate a modified shadow utilizing a shadow synthesis model where the shadow synthesis model is conditioned on a shadow mask generated by the shadow analyzer model.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2024Date of Patent: May 12, 2026Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Tianyu Wang, Soo Ye Kim, Luis Figueroa, Haitian Zheng, Jianming Zhang, Zhihong Ding, Scott Cohen, Zhe Lin, Wei Xiong
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Patent number: 12626496Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for selecting target objects within digital images utilizing a multi-modal object selection neural network trained to accommodate multiple input modalities. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods generate a trained neural network based on training digital images and training indicators corresponding to various input modalities. Moreover, one or more embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods utilize a trained neural network and iterative user inputs corresponding to different input modalities to select target objects in digital images. Specifically, the disclosed systems and methods can transform user inputs into distance maps that can be utilized in conjunction with color channels and a trained neural network to identify pixels that reflect the target object.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2023Date of Patent: May 12, 2026Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Brian Price, Scott Cohen, Mai Long, Jun Hao Liew
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Patent number: 12597186Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images via scene-based editing to synthesize shadows for object(s). For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems receive a digital image depicting a scene. The disclosed systems access an object mask of the object depicting in the digital image. The disclosed systems further combine the object mask, the digital image, and a noise representation to generate a combined representation. Moreover, the disclosed systems generate a shadow for the object from the combined representation and further generates the modified digital image by combining the shadow with the digital image.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2023Date of Patent: April 7, 2026Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Soo Ye Kim, Zhe Lin, Scott Cohen, Jianming Zhang, Luis Figueroa
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Publication number: 20260065425Abstract: A method, apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and system for image generation include obtaining a foreground image and a background image. The foreground image depicts an object and the background image depicts a scene. The foreground image is encoded, using an image encoder of an image generation model, to obtain a foreground embedding. The foreground embedding preserves the identity of the object. A composite image is generated, using the image generation model, based on the background image and the foreground embedding. The composite image depicts the object from the foreground image within the scene from the background image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2024Publication date: March 5, 2026Inventors: Yizhi Song, Zhifei Zhang, Zhe Lin, Jianming Zhang, Scott Cohen, Brian Price, Soo Ye Kim, He Zhang, Wei Xiong
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Patent number: 12547658Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media implements related image search and image modification processes using various search engines and a consolidated graphical user interface. For instance, one or more embodiments involve receiving an input digital image and search input and further modify the input digital image using the image search results retrieved in response to the search input. In some cases, the search input includes a multi-modal search input having multiple queries (e.g., an image query and a text query), and one or more embodiments involve retrieving the image search results utilizing a weighted combination of the queries. Some implementations involve generating an input embedding for the search input (e.g., the multi-modal search input) and retrieving the image search results using the input embedding.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Zhifei Zhang, Zhe Lin, Zhihong Ding, Scott Cohen, Darshan Prasad
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Publication number: 20260038228Abstract: 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 receive a digital image from a client device. The disclosed systems detect, utilizing a shadow detection neural network, an object portrayed in the digital image. The disclosed systems detect, utilizing the shadow detection neural network, a shadow portrayed in the digital image. The disclosed systems generate, utilizing the shadow detection neural network, an object-shadow pair prediction that associates the shadow with the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2025Publication date: February 5, 2026Inventors: Luis Figueroa, Zhe Lin, Zhihong Ding, Scott Cohen
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Publication number: 20260038167Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for generating segmentations of a raster image via a half-edge mesh structure with scanline operations. The disclosed system determines, during scanline operations on a raster image, a plurality of sets of adjacent pixels having a common color value in the raster image. The disclosed system determines, during the scanline operations on the raster image, a plurality of half-edges at edges of pixels along a boundary of a set of adjacent pixels of the plurality of sets of adjacent pixels with next half-edge directions indicating directions of subsequent half-edges along the boundary of the set of adjacent pixels. The disclosed system generates one or more oriented polyline boundary loops representing the boundary of the set of adjacent pixels from the plurality of half-edges and the next half-edge directions of the set of adjacent pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2024Publication date: February 5, 2026Inventors: Jing Shi, Hang Hua, Scott Cohen, John Collomosse, Kushal Kafle, Simon Jenni
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Patent number: 12536625Abstract: 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 and without user input, object masks for objects in a digital image. The disclosed systems determine foreground and background abutting an object mask. The disclosed systems generate an expanded object mask by expanding the object mask into the foreground abutting the object mask by a first amount and expanding the object mask into the background abutting the object mask by a second amount that differs from the first amount. The disclosed systems inpaint a hole corresponding to the expanded object mask utilizing an inpainting neural network.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: January 27, 2026Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Qing Liu, Zhe Lin, Luis Figueroa, Scott Cohen
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Publication number: 20260017471Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for training a multilingual large language model to embed text into an embedding space of a vision language model comprising a text encoder for a first language and a vision encoder. In particular, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems generate, utilizing the vision encoder, image embeddings for images. Additionally, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems generate, utilizing the multilingual large language model, text embeddings for text in languages other than the first language. Furthermore, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems determine similarity metrics between the image embeddings for the images and the text embeddings for the text. Moreover, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems adjust parameters of the multilingual large language model to reduce an output of a contrastive loss function based on the similarity metrics without adjusting parameters of the vision encoder.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2024Publication date: January 15, 2026Inventors: Handong Zhao, Tracy King, Kushal Kafle, Rohith Reddy Katikireddy, Sanat Sharma, Scott Cohen, Seunghyun Yoon, Trung Bui, Tushar Vatsa, Venkata Naveen Kumar Yadav Marri, Wei-ting Hsu, Hao Tan, Fangzheng Wu, Amine Ben Khalifa, Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale
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Patent number: 12511593Abstract: The present disclosure describes platforms and systems designed and configured as a collaboration portal that functions as a socialization and interpretation “layer” that is configured to be added to a modern BI or data technology stack to extract its full value. Collaboration portals designed and configured according to the present disclosure may be configured to address the problem of underutilized BI resources by providing technical solutions for aggregating and socializing insights across existing BI tools and across organizational divisions, for example, collaborating, discussing, sharing, socializing, etc. a plurality of insights generated on a plurality of disparate BI tools or other software programs via a central collaboration portal with a plurality of users.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2025Date of Patent: December 30, 2025Assignee: IXIS, LLCInventors: Danielle Giandomenico Job, Kurt Ryan Peters, Scott Cohen, Filipe Rodrigues, Princewill Ehiriudu
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Patent number: 12505596Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that implement perspective-aware object move operations for digital image editing. For instance, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems determine a vanishing point associated with a digital image portraying an object. Additionally, the disclosed systems detect one or more user interactions for moving the object within the digital image. Based on moving the object with respect to the vanishing point, the disclosed systems perform a perspective-based resizing of the object within the digital image.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2023Date of Patent: December 23, 2025Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Zhihong Ding, Scott Cohen, Matthew Joss, Jianming Zhang, Darshan Prasad, Celso Gomes, Jonathan Brandt
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Patent number: 12505518Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: December 23, 2025Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Zhe Lin, Haitian Zheng, Elya Shechtman, Jianming Zhang, Jingwan Lu, Ning Xu, Qing Liu, Scott Cohen, Sohrab Amirghodsi
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Patent number: 12493991Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media embed a trained neural network within a digital image. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the systems identify out-of-gamut pixel values of a digital image in a first gamut, where the digital image is converted to the first gamut from a second gamut. Furthermore, the systems determine target pixel values of a target version of the digital image in the first gamut that correspond to the out-of-gamut pixel values. The systems train a neural network to predict the target pixel values in the first gamut based on the out-of-gamut pixel values. The systems embed the neural network within the digital image in the second gamut to allow for extraction of the embedded neural network from the digital image to restore the digital image to a larger gamut digital image.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: December 9, 2025Assignees: Adobe Inc., York UniversityInventors: Hoang M. Le, Michael S. Brown, Brian Price, Scott Cohen
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Patent number: 12488523Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that provides a graphical user interface experience to move objects and generate new shadows within a digital image scene. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems receive a digital image depicting a scene. The disclosed systems receive a selection to position an object in a first location within the scene. Further, the disclosed systems composite an image by placing the object at the first location within the scene of the digital image. Moreover, the disclosed systems generate a modified digital image having a shadow of the object where the shadow is consistent with the scene and provides the modified digital image to the client device.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2023Date of Patent: December 2, 2025Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Soo Ye Kim, Zhe Lin, Scott Cohen, Jianming Zhang, Luis Figueroa, Zhihong Ding