Microsoft patents AI tool for creating layered graphics from text
Microsoft describes a system that takes a text description and uses AI models to plan a layout with empty boxes for different elements. It then generates a background and separate transparent layers for those elements, which are combined into a final image.
In the filing’s own words
A data processing system implements receiving a text prompt to create a multilayer graphic design; predicting, by a first generative model based on the text prompt, a layout including anonymous regions each defined by a bounding box without content or region-wise prompt annotations; concurrently generating, by a diffusion transformer, multilayer image latents of a global reference image, a background layer, and transparent foreground layers using a Gaussian noise conditioned on the layout and the text prompt, each of the transparent foreground layers corresponding to one of the anonymous regions; decoding, by a vision transformer, the multilayer image latents into the global reference image, the background layer, and the transparent foreground layers as the multilayer graphic design; composing an output based on the background layer and the transparent foreground layers; providing the output to a client device; and causing a user interface of the client device to display the output.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A data processing system comprising: a processor, and a machine-readable storage medium storing executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor alone or in combination with other processors to perform operations: receiving a text prompt to create a multilayer graphic design; predicting, by a first generative model based on the text prompt, a layout including a plurality of anonymous regions each defined by a bounding box without content or region-wise prompt annotations; concurrently generating, by a diffusion transformer, multilayer image latents of a global reference image, a background layer, and a plurality of transparent foreground layers using a Gaussian noise conditioned on the layout and the text prompt, each of the transparent foreground layers corresponding to one of the anonymous regions; decoding, by a vision transformer, the multilayer image latents into the global reference image, the background layer, and the plurality of transparent foreground layers as the multilayer graphic design; composing an output based on the background layer and the plurality of transparent foreground layers; providing the output to a client device; and causing a user interface of the client device to display the output.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTILAYER DESIGN GENERATION GUIDED BY AN ANONYMOUS REGION LAYOUT
- Publication number
- US20260260392A1
- Application number
- 19068252
- Filed
- Mar 3, 2025
- Published
- Sep 3, 2026
- Inventors
- 10
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 11/00 Physics & computingG06N 3/045 Physics & computingG06T 2200/24 Physics & computingMore from Microsoft in AI & software
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