Patent Document ID: 7724952
Application ID: 11434567
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of obtaining a matte suitable for separating a foreground object from a background object, the method comprising: obtaining a flash-only image of a scene based on a difference of an image of the scene taken with a flash and an image of the scene taken without a flash; obtaining a trimap based on the flash-only image; and obtaining a matte, using a computer, suitable for separating a foreground object from a background object of the scene based on the trimap, the flash-only image and at least one of the image of the scene taken without the flash and the image of the scene taken with the flash, and wherein obtaining the matte comprises selectively using information based on the flash-only image and at least one of the image of the scene taken without the flash and the image of the scene taken with the flash.