ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,030, issued on April 22, was assigned to Armada Systems Inc. (San Francisco).
"Object tracking through artifacts" was invented by Pragyana K. Mishra (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods to track an object in a scene even when the object is partially or wholly obscured by an artifact, such as another object. As the tracked object moves through the scene, frames of video are processed and used to refine and tune a diffusion model that predicts an appearance of the tracked object in future frames of the video as well as the appearance of artifacts in the frames of the video. Frames of the video may th...