US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises on Sept. 22 for "Temporally stable occlusion free caption rendering position in Z-plane for stereoscopic video" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,873, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Temporally stable occlusion free caption rendering position in Z-plane for stereoscopic video" was invented by Yuanyi Xue (Alameda, Calif.), Scott Labrozzi (Cary, N.C.), Eitan M. Abecassis (Morrisville, N.C.), Chetan Mathur (Apex, N.C.) and Michael J. Bracco (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method determines a disparity value from a plurality of disparity values in a current frame of a stereoscopic video. The disparity value is based on a difference of a value for a pixel between a first video and a second video o...