ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,229, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Burst image matting" was invented by Xuaner Zhang (Union City, Calif.), Xinyi Wu (Shenzhen, China), Markus Jamal Woodson (San Jose, Calif.), Joon-Young Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Price (Pleasant Grove, Utah) and Jiawen Chen (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods perform image matte generation using image bursts. In accordance with some aspects, an image burst comprising a set of images is received. Features of a reference image from the set of images is aligned with features of other images from the set of images. A matte for the r...