Google patents photo tool that fixes head angles and necks
This patent describes a software method that takes two photos of the same person to create a better version. It copies the head from one photo into another and blends the neck and shoulders using a mix of pixels from both images to make the transition look smooth.
In the filing’s own words
A media application receives a set of images that include a source image and a target image, the source image and the target image including at least a subject. The media application determines whether to use one or more editors selected from a group of a head editor, a face editor, or combinations thereof. Responsive to determining to use the head editor, the media application generates a compositive image by replacing at least a portion of head pixels associated with a target head of the subject in the target image with head pixels from a source head of the subject in the source image and replacing neck pixels associated with a target neck and shoulder pixels associated with target shoulders that include an area between the target head and a target torso with an interpolated region that is generated from an interpolation of the source image and the target image.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a set of images that include a source image and a target image, the source image and the target image including at least a subject; determining, based on the set of images, whether to use one or more editors selected from a group of a head editor, a face editor, or combinations thereof; and responsive to determining to use the head editor, generating a composite image by: replacing at least a portion of head pixels associated with a target head of the subject in the target image with head pixels from a source head of the subject in the source image; and replacing neck pixels associated with a target neck and shoulder pixels associated with target shoulders that include an area between the target head and a target torso with an interpolated region that is generated from an interpolation of the source image and the target image.
Facts
- Company
- Google (Google LLC)
- Official title
- Generating an image with head pose or facial region improvements
- Patent number
- US12737947B2
- Application number
- 18906015
- Filed
- Oct 3, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 9
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 11/60 Physics & computingG06T 5/77 Physics & computingG06F 3/0484 Physics & computingG06T 7/30 Physics & computingG06T 15/205 Physics & computingMore from Google in AI & software
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