US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 8 for "Embedding frame masks in a video stream" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,629, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Embedding frame masks in a video stream" was invented by Henrik Valdemar Turbell (Redmond, Wash.), David Yuheng Zhao (Redmond, Wash.) and Zhuangfei Wu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for decoding frame masks in a video stream. In some solutions, a computer implemented method receives a frame of video data comprising an array of pixels with encoded color values defined in a YUV color space. The encoded values, converted from original color values using a mapping function, are bounded within a second dat...