ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,077, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Displaying and editing images with depth information" was invented by Matan Stauber (Tel Aviv, Israel), Amir Hoffnung (Tel Aviv, Israel), Matthaeus Krenn (San Francisco), Jeffrey Traer Bernstein (San Francisco), Joseph A. Malia (San Francisco) and Mark Hauenstein (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to displaying and editing an image with depth information. In response to an input, an object in the image having a one or more elements in a first depth range is identified. The identified object is then isolated fro...