Systems and methods for creating and distributing professional quality pictorial souvenirs giving the illusion that guests of a facility were imaged at other locations, including making initial arrangements with guests, showing selections of background scene images at video displays and flashing chrome key images interspersed with frames of the scene images, taking key guest images in synch with the flashed key images, extracting guest image content from the key guest images and merging into selecting scene images, showing preview merges images for guest selection and providing souvenir portfolios that include merged images to guests or designees after making financial arrangements, including for payment to third parties for copyright content included in the souvenirs and with advertisers for promotional material included in the souvenirs.

Images of foreground objects in a scene are generated by causing electromagnetic radiation to be emitted having a first spectral power distribution from a surface of a first foreground object, which is adjacent or at least partially obscured by a second foreground object. A first image of both of the first and second foreground objects is acquired while the first foreground object emits electromagnetic radiation with the first spectral power distribution. A second image of the first and second foreground objects is acquired while the first foreground object is not emitting electromagnetic radiation or is emitting electromagnetic radiation with a second spectral power distribution which is different to the first spectral power distribution. An alpha matte of the first and second foreground objects is generated based on a comparison of the first image and second image.

Parallel video effects, mix trees, and related methods are disclosed. Video data inputs are mixed in parallel according to a mix parameter signal associated with one of the video data inputs. A resultant parallel mixed video data output is further mixed with a further video data input according to a composite mix parameter signal, which corresponds to a product of mix parameter signals that are based on mix parameter signals respectively associated with multiple video data inputs. The mix parameter signals could be alpha signals, in which case the composite mix parameter signal could correspond to a product of complementary alpha signals that are complements of the alpha signals. Composite mix parameter signals and mix results could be truncated based on a number of levels in a multi-level mix tree and an error or error tolerance. Rounding could be applied to a final mix output or an intermediate mix result.

Parallel video effects, mix trees, and related methods are disclosed. Video data inputs are mixed in parallel according to a mix parameter signal associated with one of the video data inputs. A resultant parallel mixed video data output is further mixed with a further video data input according to a composite mix parameter signal, which corresponds to a product of mix parameter signals that are based on mix parameter signals respectively associated with multiple video data inputs. The mix parameter signals could be alpha signals, in which case the composite mix parameter signal could correspond to a product of complementary alpha signals that are complements of the alpha signals. Composite mix parameter signals and mix results could be truncated based on a number of levels in a multi-level mix tree and an error or error tolerance. Rounding could be applied to a final mix output or an intermediate mix result.

Systems and methods for creating and distributing professional quality pictorial souvenirs giving the illusion that guests of a facility were imaged at other locations, including making initial arrangements with guests, showing selections of background scene images at video displays and flashing chroma key images interspersed with frames of the scene images, taking key guest images in synch with the flashed key images, extracting guest image content from the key guest images and merging into selecting scene images, showing preview merges images for guest selection and providing souvenir portfolios that include merged images to guests or designees after making financial arrangements, including for payment to third parties for copyright content included in the souvenirs and with advertisers for promotional material included in the souvenirs.

Systems and methods for creating and distributing professional quality pictorial souvenirs giving the illusion that guests of a facility were imaged at other locations, including making initial arrangements with guests, showing selections of background scene images at video displays and flashing chroma key images interspersed with frames of the scene images, taking key guest images in synch with the flashed key images, extracting guest image content from the key guest images and merging into selecting scene images, showing preview merges images for guest selection and providing souvenir portfolios that include merged images to guests or designees after making financial arrangements, including for payment to third parties for copyright content included in the souvenirs and with advertisers for promotional material included in the souvenirs.

An information processing device includes a video processing unit that performs, on a captured video obtained by capturing a display video of a display device and an object, video processing of a display video area determined using mask information for separating a display video and an object video in the captured video, or video processing of an object video area determined using the mask information.

Disclosed herein are methods and systems for combining foreground video and background video using chromatic matching. In an embodiment, a system obtains foreground video data. The system obtains background video data. The system determines a color-distribution dimensionality of the background video data to be either high-dimensional chromatic or low-dimensional chromatic. The system selects a chromatic-adjustment technique from a set of chromatic-adjustment techniques based on the determined color-distribution dimensionality of the background video data. The system adjusts the foreground video data using the selected chromatic-adjustment technique. The system generates combined video data at least in part by combining the background video data with the adjusted foreground video data. The system outputs the combined video for display.

A system for transmitting a chroma-keyed video between at least two mobile communication devices. The system includes a first mobile communication device for creating the chroma-keyed video through a software Application and transmitting the chroma-keyed video. A Cloud receives the chroma-keyed video from the first mobile communication device. A second mobile communication device receives the chroma-keyed video from the Cloud. The software Application within the second mobile communication device manipulates the chroma-keyed video received from the Cloud.

A system for transmitting a chroma-keyed video between at least two mobile communication devices. The system includes a first mobile communication device for creating the chroma-keyed video through a software Application and transmitting the chroma-keyed video. A Cloud receives the chroma-keyed video from the first mobile communication device. A second mobile communication device receives the chroma-keyed video from the Cloud. The software Application within the second mobile communication device manipulates the chroma-keyed video received from the Cloud.