Dynamic frosted window effect

Hi, I need to have a sprite that acts as a blur filter for whatever is below it... i.e. if its a square on top of a photo, then the photo is blurred underneath the square, but nowhere else. I've seen a few examples where displayFilters were used to create ripple or colour effects, but none that just blurred the image below.
Any ideas?

Thanks, that's exactly what I need (I think) but I'm having trouble
implementing it... When I use the addWindow(mySprite) method, it
throws an error saying it expected two arguments and got none... Any
idea what I'm doing wrong?
Regards,
Chris

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