ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,162, issued on March 3, was assigned to DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC. (Burbank, Calif.).
"Real-time matting system" was invented by Martin Guay (Unterengstringen, Switzerland), Tunc Ozan Aydin (Zurich) and Mattia Gustavo Bruno Paolo Ryffel (Bidogno, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed matting technique comprises receiving a video feed comprising a plurality of temporally ordered video frames as the video frames are captured by a video capture device, generating, using one or more machine learning models, an image mask corresponding to each video frame included in the video feed and a depth estimate corresponding to eac...