ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,031, issued on July 29.
"Light field offset rendering" was invented by Thomas Butyn (St. John's, Canada) and Colton Smith (Clarenville, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for light field rendering of a 3D scene data. The rendering method comprises capturing a light field image at a retracted plane, parallel to the display plane, decoding a light field camera to produce a hogel camera for each hogel at the retraction plane to produce an integral image, and applying a pixel remapping technique to the pixels of the integral image for display on a light field display. The 3D scene is captured and remapped to adjust the perspe...