Disney patents video tool that tracks specific parts of objects in moving images
Disney has filed a patent for a system that tracks specific areas of an object across a video sequence. It works by analyzing visual features in each frame to create a map of the object's surface, allowing the software to accurately apply a mask or overlay to a chosen part of the object in every image.
In the filing’s own words
A system includes a hardware processor and a memory storing software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive a sequence of images each including a depiction of the same object, and for each image of the sequence of images: extract visual features of the object depicted in the image and process the visual features to predict an image-space UV map of the object. The hardware processor further executes the software code to receive a masking input identifying a portion of the object to be overlaid by a mask, and mask, using the masking input and the image-space UV map predicted for each image, a respective portion of each image of the sequence of images corresponding to the identified portion to produce a masked sequence of images.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A system comprising: a hardware processor; and a memory storing a software code; the hardware processor configured to execute the software code to: receive a sequence of images, each image of the sequence of images including a depiction of a same object; for each image of the sequence of images; extract a plurality of visual features of the same object depicted in the image; and process the plurality of visual features to predict an image-space UV map of the same object depicted in the image; receive a masking input identifying a portion of the same object to be overlaid by a mask; and mask, using the masking input and the image-space UV map predicted for each image of the sequence of images, a respective portion of each image of the sequence of images corresponding to the identified portion to produce a masked sequence of images.
Facts
- Company
- Disney (Disney Enterprises, Inc.)
- Official title
- Image-Space UV Map-Based Tracking of Image Regions in Video
- Publication number
- US20260268706A1
- Application number
- 19074998
- Filed
- Mar 10, 2025
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06V 40/171 Physics & computingG06T 13/40 Physics & computingG06T 15/205 Physics & computingG06T 15/40 Physics & computingG06T 19/00 Physics & computingG06V 10/267 Physics & computingMore from Disney in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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