ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,000, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Three dimensional aware video compositing" was invented by Zhan Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Kim P. Pimmel (San Francisco) and Jimei Yang (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Three dimensional aware video compositing techniques are described. In one or more examples, subject data is produced that defines a subject depicted in frames of a subject video and viewpoint data describing movement of a viewpoint with respect to the frames of the subject video. Three-dimensional data is formed that defines a three-dimensional representation of an environment ...