How Amazon got a patent on white-background photography

Posted by BernardSwiss on Jun 14, 2014 10:30 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By Charles Duan 		Mail this story
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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 Photography” is all over the Internet, with people exasperated that a decades-old technique could become the subject matter of a patent in 2014.

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