ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,959, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) and UCL Business Ltd. (London).

"Learning a 3D scene generation model from images of a self-similar scene" was invented by Oliver Wang (Seattle), Animesh Karnewar (London), Tobias Ritschel (London) and Niloy Mitra (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scene modeling system accesses a set of input two-dimensional (2D) images of a three-dimensional (3D) environment, wherein the input 2D images captured from a plurality of camera orientations. The environment includes first content. The scene modeling system applies a scene generation model to the set of input 2D i...