US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 15 for "Iterative background generation for video streams" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,846, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Iterative background generation for video streams" was invented by Stefan Lindmark (Osthammar, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for iterative background generation for video streams are provided. A first background layer and a first foreground layer of a first frame of a video stream are determined. A second background layer and a second foreground layer of a second frame of the video stream are determined. The first and second background layers are combined. The combined background layer includes a region obscured by both the firs...