You already know how this story ends: Amazon gets U.S. Patent No. 8,676,045 on taking a photograph of an object in front of a white background. The headline “Amazon Patents White-Background ...

More specifically, I typically need to convert an image with a white background to have a transparent background so that it blends more naturally with a non-white background. The next screen ...

All Nash wanted from AI was an image of a plain, pure, white background; in color-code lingo, the color #FFFFFF or RGB(255,255,255). Nothing else. Such an utterly simple task proved to be rather ...