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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2010
Applicants:
Jian Sun, Beijing, CN;
Kaiming He, Beijing, CN;
Jiangyu Liu, Beijing, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/033 (2006.01); G06F 3/048 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A user interface enables interactive image matting to be performed on an image The user interface may provide results including an alpha matte as feedback in real time. The user interface may provide interactive tools for selecting a portion of the image, and an unknown region for alpha matte processing may be automatically generated adjacent to the selected region. The user may interactively refine the alpha matte as desired to obtain a satisfactory result.