Sony patents tech to add missing people or objects into photos
Sony has filed a patent for a method that checks if a specific person, animal, or object is missing from a picture. If the system decides the entity should be there, it modifies the image to include that missing element.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to determine whether image data describes a first image that contains a second image and to determine whether an entity is not shown in the second image, the entity being a specific person, a specific animal or a specific object, and to determine whether an image of the entity should be included in the second and to modify the first image such that a modified first image of the second image includes the image of the entity.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to: determine whether image data describes a first image that contains a second image; and determine that an entity is not shown in the second image; the entity being a specific person, a specific animal or a specific object; and determine that an image of the entity should be included in the second image; and modify the first image such that a modified first image of the second image includes the image of the entity.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD
- Publication number
- US20260278875A1
- Application number
- 19163938
- Filed
- Mar 27, 2024
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 11/60 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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