ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,928, issued on April 14, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Mask propagation for video segmentation" was invented by Joon-Young Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Seoung Wug Oh (San Jose, Calif.), Ho Kei Cheng (Champaign, Ill.) and Brian Price (Pleasant Grove, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for performing universal segmentation to mask objects across multiple frames of a video. The method may include determining an image segmentation mask which masks an object of a frame of a video sequence using the frame and an image segmentation module of a segmentation system. The method further includes determin...