US Patent Issued to Muybridge AS on July 8 for "Method for extracting obstructing objects from an image captured in a multiple camera system" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,278, issued on July 8, was assigned to Muybridge AS (Stord, Norway).

"Method for extracting obstructing objects from an image captured in a multiple camera system" was invented by Vegard Nitter Vestad (Oslo, Norway) and Espen Christensen (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a system and method for utilizing multiple camera systems for extracting obstructing objects or foreground close to primary camera(s) and filling in the unknown area using pixel information obtained from multiple cameras, i.e. synthesized images where foreground obstructions are removed is provided. This is done by using a pri...