ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,994, issued on July 29, was assigned to AVER INFORMATION INC. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for transparentizing target object and image processing system" was invented by Ren-Pao Hsieh (New Taipei, Taiwan), Jun Hsu Tsai (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yun-Long Sie (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transparentizing a target object of a video includes following steps performed by a processor: extracting a target block corresponding to an target object from a frame of the video; setting a target transparentizing weight corresponding to the target block; performing a dilation operation upon the target block to gen...