US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 20 for "Scene removal, cinematic video editing, and image grid operations in video editing application" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,898, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Scene removal, cinematic video editing, and image grid operations in video editing application" was invented by Rupamay Saha (Cupertino, Calif.) and Shaun M Poole (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a system generates a video clip in which the user can select which entity is in-focus and which other entities are out-of-focus based on a source video clip that has already been recorded. Multiple video clips may be generated based on the source video clip with different selected entities in-focus and other entities out-of-focu...