US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 18 for "Diffused light rendering of a virtual light source in a 3D environment" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,637, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Diffused light rendering of a virtual light source in a 3D environment" was invented by Noah A. Witherspoon (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that generate a depiction of a portion of a physical environment illuminated based on light provided by identified portions of a virtual light source. For example, an example process may include obtaining sensor data, generating a three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction based on the sensor data, positioning a virtual light source relat...