ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,776, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).
"Systems and methods for processing volumetric images" was invented by Robin Atkins (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A volumetric image of a scene can be created, in one embodiment, by recording, through a camera in a device, a series of images of the scene as the camera is moved along a path relative to the scene; during the recording, the device stores motion path metadata about the path, and the series of images is associated with the motion path metadata and a metadata label is associated with the series of images, the met...