US Patent Issued to INNOPEAK TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 3 for "Motion-based pixel propagation for video inpainting" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,829, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to INNOPEAK TECHNOLOGY INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Motion-based pixel propagation for video inpainting" was invented by Jenhao Hsiao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Zheng Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for pixel propagation and video inpainting are described. A video processing application selects, from a sequence of video frames, a reference video frame that includes replacement pixels corresponding to a mask of an undesired object. The video processing application aligns the reference video frame with the target video frame. The video processing application identifies, i...