ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,669, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Orbbec Inc. (Shenzhen, China) and Shenzhen Aoxin Micro Vision Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Matting network training method and matting method" was invented by Miao Li (Shenzhen, China), Feiyu Yang (Shenzhen, China), Beibei Qian (Shenzhen, China) and Fei Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: obtaining a first image including a foreground, a second image including a background, and soft segmentation of the foreground; and inputting the first image, the second image, and the soft segmentation into an image matting network, and outputting a foreground se...