US Patent Issued to Adobe on July 8 for "Joint trimap estimation and alpha matte prediction for video matting" (American, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,236, issued on July 8, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Joint trimap estimation and alpha matte prediction for video matting" was invented by Joon-Young Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Seoungwug Oh (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Lynn Price (Pleasant Grove, Utah) and Hongje Seong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In implementations of systems for joint trimap estimation and alpha matte prediction, a computing device implements a matting system to estimate a trimap for a frame of a digital video using a first stage of a machine learning model. An alpha matte is predicted for the frame based on the trimap and the frame...