Mask-Aware Diffusion Editing for Realistic Typography Alignment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional image editing systems are inflexible, inaccurate, and inefficient, often generating unrealistic digital images with artifacts and requiring significant computational resources due to rigid parameters and prior diffusion neural networks.

Innovation Solution

The mask aware image editing system utilizes a diffusion neural network to generate stylized images by combining base digital images with shape masks, employing flexible structural weights and diffusion noising models to create realistic images that naturally incorporate mask characteristics, avoiding the need for prior diffusion neural networks.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Power

If conventional diffusion neural networks are used for image generation, then image generation capability is achieved, but computational overhead and processing time are excessive

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomputational overheadVSAvoidimage generation efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
PowerVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent pre-processes the input image by adding noise to generate a noise map before the actual image generation process. This preliminary action allows the diffusion model to start from a more favorable state, reducing the number of denoising steps needed and thereby decreasing computational overhead while maintaining generation quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of applying the full diffusion process to the entire image, the patent applies the diffusion model selectively to specific regions identified by the noise map. This partial action approach reduces the overall computational load by focusing processing only where style transfer is needed, improving generation efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

2Adaptability or versatility

If rigid parameters are used in conventional image editing systems, then system stability is maintained, but flexibility and adaptability are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveediting flexibilityVSAvoidsystem stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces dynamic control through the noise map generation process, where the amount and distribution of noise can be adjusted based on the desired style transfer intensity. This dynamic approach allows the system to adapt between different editing strengths while maintaining stable operation through the structured diffusion process

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the noise level parameter dynamically during the editing process. By controlling the noise addition magnitude and the number of diffusion steps, the system can flexibly adjust the degree of style transfer while maintaining computational stability through the standardized diffusion framework

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Manufacturing precision

If masks are applied in conventional systems, then region-specific editing is achieved, but image realism and naturalness deteriorate due to artifacts

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemask alignment accuracyVSAvoidimage artifacts
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent moves the mask application from the image space to the noise map space. By applying the style mask to the noise map before diffusion, the editing boundaries are softened and blended naturally during the denoising process, eliminating the harsh artifacts that would result from direct mask application in the final image space

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

The noise map serves as an intermediary between the input image and the final generated image. The mask is applied to this intermediate representation, allowing the diffusion model to naturally blend the masked regions with surrounding areas during the generative process, thereby eliminating artificial boundaries and artifacts

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12536722B2Utilizing a diffusion neural network for mask aware image and typography editing
Publication Date: 2026.01.27 ADOBE INC
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for utilizing a diffusion neural network for mask aware image and typography editing. For example, in one or more embodiments the disclosed systems utilize a text-image encoder to generate a base image embedding from a base digital image. Moreover, the disclosed systems generate a mask-segmented image by combining a shape mask with the base digital image. In one or more implementations, the disclosed systems utilize noising steps of a diffusion noising model to generate a mask-segmented image noise map from the mask-segmented image. Furthermore, the disclosed systems utilize a diffusion neural network to create a stylized image corresponding to the shape mask from the base image embedding and the mask-segmented image noise map.