ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,241, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"High-fidelity three-dimensional asset encoding" was invented by Krishna Bhargava Mullia Lakshminarayana (San Francisco), Valentin Deschaintre (London), Nathan Carr (San Jose, Calif.), Milos Hasan (San Jose, Calif.) and Bailey Miller (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects and features of this disclosure relate to rendering images by training a neural material and applying the material map to a coarse geometry to provide high-fidelity asset encoding. For example, training can involve sampling for a set of lighting and camera configurations arran...