Google patents overlaying app content behind your camera feed
This filing describes a method where a device removes the background from a camera feed to create a transparent foreground layer. It then places this layer over a background generated by an app, effectively putting the user in front of digital content. The final combined image is displayed on the screen within a specific viewing area.
In the filing’s own words
An example method includes generating, by a computing device, a foreground data stream by at least removing a background region of video input, where the video input is received via a camera component of the computing device. The method also includes generating, by the computing device, a background data stream via a graphics component of the computing device. The background data stream is associated with content generated by an application executing at the computing device. The method additionally includes generating, by the computing device, video content by at least superimposing a first layer over a second layer, the first layer associated with the foreground data stream and the second layer associated with the background data stream. The method further includes outputting, by a display of the computing device, a graphical user interface that includes a viewing region for displaying the video content.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: generating, by a computing device, a foreground data stream by at least removing a background region of video input, the video input received via a camera component of the computing device; generating, by the computing device, a background data stream via a graphics component of the computing device, the background data stream associated with content generated by an application executing at the computing device; generating, by the computing device, video content by at least superimposing a first layer over a second layer, the first layer associated with the foreground data stream and the second layer associated with the background data stream; and outputting, by a display of the computing device, a graphical user interface that includes a viewing region for displaying the video content.
Facts
- Company
- Google (Google LLC)
- Official title
- SELF-CAPTURE DIGITAL OVERLAY
- Publication number
- US20260320851A1
- Application number
- 19176999
- Filed
- Apr 11, 2025
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 8
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 11/00 Physics & computingG06F 3/017 Physics & computingG06T 3/40 Physics & computingG06V 10/273 Physics & computingG06V 20/20 Physics & computingG06V 20/30 Physics & computingMore from Google 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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