ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,937, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Efficient stereo rendering" was invented by Afshin Taghavi Nasrabadi (Los Gatos, Calif.), Michael Stecklein (Georgetown, Texas) and Maneli Noorkami (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that generates a stereo view of a three-dimensional (3D) environment by rendering a first eye view and reusing pixels from the first eye view for a second eye view based on a disparity indicative characteristic (e.g., identifying regions of pixel difference/similarity in the views). For exam...