Patent Document ID: 8441476
Application ID: 12121660
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for repairing an object in image data of a live event, comprising: obtaining an image of the live event from a camera, the live event includes humans and the camera has a viewpoint of the live event; automatically detecting at least a first human and a second human in the image of the live event, a portion of the first human is occluded in the viewpoint of the camera by the second human; responsive to the automatically detecting, displaying an image of the first human with the occluding second human in a user interface; receiving a command from a user via the user interface which selects the image of the first human with the occluding second human for editing; receiving a command from the user using a crop tool of the user interface to remove the second human from the image of the first human with the occluding second human, providing an image of the first human without the second human; displaying an image library of humans concurrently with the image of the first human without the second human; receiving user commands to crop out a portion of one of the humans in the image library and to position the portion of the one of the humans in the image library relative to the image of the first human without the second human, to provide an image of the first human with the portion of the one of the humans in the image library; and combining: (a) a textured 3d model of the live event and (b) data from the image of the first human with the portion of the one of the humans in the image library, to depict a virtual viewpoint of the live event which differs from a viewpoint of the camera.