Sony patents method to combine AI and object recognition for better silhouettes
Sony describes a system that creates a precise outline, or silhouette, of a subject in a photo by combining two different methods. It merges a result from an AI model that looks at the subject against a background with a result from a standard object recognition tool. The filing notes this technique can help generate 3D models from captured images.
In the filing’s own words
The present technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program capable of accurately extracting a silhouette of a subject. An image processing device of the present technology includes a merge processing unit configured to merge a first silhouette image output from a first learning model that takes, as input, a captured image in which a subject and a background appear and a background image in which the background appears, and outputs a silhouette image indicating a region of the subject in the captured image, and a second silhouette image generated by using a method for generating the silhouette image by performing object recognition on the captured image. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an image processing device that extracts a silhouette of a subject from a captured image for use in generating a 3D model.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An image processing device comprising a merge processing unit configured to merge a first silhouette image output from a first learning model that takes, as input, a captured image in which a subject and a background appear and a background image in which the background appears, and outputs a silhouette image indicating a region of the subject in the captured image, and a second silhouette image generated by using a method for generating the silhouette image by performing object recognition on the captured image.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
- Official title
- IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
- Publication number
- US20260301123A1
- Application number
- 19100838
- Filed
- Jul 25, 2023
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 12
Classified under
G06T 5/50 Physics & computingG06T 7/162 Physics & computingG06T 7/194 Physics & computingG06V 10/764 Physics & computingG06T 2207/20221 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AI & software
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