发明名称 Method for removing from an image the background surrounding a selected subject by generating candidate mattes
摘要 In an image being displayed on a monitor, each observed background color is identified using a cursor to select the dominant colors. Each foreground color is also identified by using the cursor as a selector. For each pixel, several Candidate mattes are computed one for each background color. Each Candidate matte is computed from a single background color and the set of selected foreground colors using any known method. Of the several Candidate mattes, the greater of these Candidates becomes the matte signal for a given pixel. If this matte is 1.0, then the pixel is part of the background. If the matte is zero, then the pixel is part of the subject. If the matte is between 1.0 and 0.0, then the pixel is in a transition area and the contribution of the background to the pixel is that pixel's matte level. A "Processed Foreground' is generated by removing the contribution of the background from each pixel in the image, resulting in the subject appearing against a black field. The above generated Candidate mattes permit the generation of Processed Foreground Candidates. Of these Processed Foreground Candidates, the smallest is the final Processed Foreground for a given pixel.
申请公布号 US6288703(B1) 申请公布日期 2001.09.11
申请号 US19990317358 申请日期 1999.05.24
申请人 ULTIMATTE CORPORATION 发明人 BERMAN ARIE;VLAHOS PAUL;DADOURIAN ARPAG
分类号 H04N9/75;(IPC1-7):G09G5/00 主分类号 H04N9/75
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