ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,146, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Netflix Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for automated video matting" was invented by Apurvakumar Dilipkumar Kansara (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Yiwei Zhao (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving an instruction to distinguish a foreground subject within an image from a background of the image based at least in part on a trimap of the image; determining, for each of the indeterminate pixels, using a chromatic-spatial distance metric, a distance of the indeterminate pixel from one or more of the foreground pixels ...