Samsung patents video editing that uses depth to fill in missing parts
Samsung has filed a patent for a method that repairs or fills in missing sections of video frames. It works by analyzing the depth of the scene to align the current frame with a previous one, allowing the system to reconstruct the missing area based on that spatial context.
In the filing’s own words
A method for video inpainting is provided. The method includes extracting an input feature including an image feature and a depth feature, based on a first frame to be restored, a mask, and a depth frame, selecting a second frame that is a frame preceding the first frame and associated with the first frame, aligning the input feature of the first frame with an output feature of the second frame, based on depth features of the first frame and the second frame, obtaining an output feature by modifying the image feature based on a depth feature of the aligned input feature, and generating a reconstructed frame based on the output feature.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method for video inpainting, the method comprising: extracting an input feature including an image feature and a depth feature, based on a first frame to be reconstructed, a mask, and a depth frame; selecting a second frame that is a frame preceding the first frame and is associated with the first frame; aligning an input feature of the first frame with an output feature of the second frame, based on depth features of the first frame and the second frame; obtaining an output feature by modifying an image feature based on a depth feature of the aligned input feature; and generating a reconstructed frame based on the output feature.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING VIDEO INPAINTING AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF
- Publication number
- US20260289754A1
- Application number
- 19687549
- Filed
- May 26, 2026
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Inventors
- 7
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 5/77 Physics & computingG06T 7/50 Physics & computingG06V 20/46 Physics & computingG06T 2207/10016 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in AI & software
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