US Patent Issued to Adobe on Nov. 3 for "Subject-aware video background generation" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,230, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Subject-aware video background generation" was invented by Zhan Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Yang Zhou (Mountain View, Calif.), Krishna Kumar Singh (San Jose, Calif.), Jimei Yang (Mountain View, Calif.), Chun-hao Huang (London) and Boxiao Pan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation of subject-aware background video generation, a processing device generates mask data and foreground feature data from frames of a subject video. The mask data separates a subject depicted in the subject video from an environment therein. The foreground feature ...