US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 6 for "Enhanced multi-view background matting for video conferencing" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,390, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Enhanced multi-view background matting for video conferencing" was invented by Niloufar Pourian (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to video background matte generation. A method may include receiving, by a first neural network trained to generate alpha mattes and foreground multi-camera images, first inputs generated by a second neural network; receiving, by the first neural network, second inputs comprising grayscale images and depth maps of the multi-camera images; and generating, ...