US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "Low-latency video matting" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,602, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Low-latency video matting" was invented by Srinidhi Aravamudhan (San Jose, Calif.), Adrian P. Lindberg (Karlstad, Calif.), Eshan Verma (Hayward, Calif.), Jaya Vijetha Gattupalli (San Jose, Calif.), Mingshan Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Ranjit Desai (Cupertino, Calif.) and Vinay Palakkode (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed herein for implementing a novel, low latency, guidance map-free video matting system, e.g., for use in extended reality (XR) platforms. The techniques may be designed to work with low resolution auxili...