Netflix patents method to train AI using single-camera changes
Netflix describes a system that captures video shots while changing only one camera setting at a time, such as angle or focus, while keeping others constant. The software records these specific changes and uses the footage to teach a machine learning model how that single setting affects the final image.
In the filing’s own words
A method trains machine learning models for filmmaking by varying a single camera parameter, capturing shots, and processing these to adjust the AI model. A system includes processors and memory to perform single-parameter variation, capture and process shots, and enhance AI model understanding. A non-transitory computer-readable medium has instructions for configuring a multi-camera environment, varying a camera parameter, and processing shots to improve an AI model.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: generating metadata indicating a set of camera parameters utilized by at least one camera to capture a set of shots associated with a common scene by varying a variable parameter of the set of camera parameters while maintaining other camera parameters constant across the set of shots to isolate effects of the variable parameter; generating a training dataset comprising the set of shots associated with the common scene and the metadata indicating the set of camera parameters comprising the variable parameter and changes to the variable parameter; and training a machine learning model utilizing the training dataset to modify training parameters of the machine learning model in accordance with an impact of the variable parameter on the set of shots.
Facts
- Company
- Netflix (Netflix, Inc.)
- Official title
- Machine Learning Model Training with Parameter Variation in Filmmaking
- Publication number
- US20260320924A1
- Application number
- 19689642
- Filed
- May 27, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 19/00 Physics & computingG06V 10/774 Physics & computingG06V 2201/10 Physics & computingMore from Netflix 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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