US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises on Oct. 6 for "Crowd removal and automatic focus for images" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,391, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Crowd removal and automatic focus for images" was invented by Santiago Iglesias Navarro (Palma de Mallorca, Spain), Pablo Pernias Pascual de Pobil (San Juan de Alicante, Spain), Robert B. Moore (Clermont, Fla.) and David N. Juboor (Johnson City, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes receiving, by a processor, an image including one or more subjects and one more obstructions. The method further includes partitioning, by the processor, the image into a plurality of image segments, where the one or more subjects and on...