US Patent Issued to Google on March 24 for "Generating videos" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,608, issued on March 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating videos" was invented by Nathan James Frey (Venice, Calif.) and Zheng Sun (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating videos. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving: (i) an input video comprising a sequence of video frames, and (ii) data indicating a target object type; processing the input video to generate tracking data that identifies and tracks visual locations of one or more instances of target objects of the target o...