ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,693, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Processing of extended dimension light field images" was invented by Robin Atkins (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, methods, media, and systems process and display light field images using a view function that is based on pixel locations in the image and on the viewer's distance (observer's Z position) from the display. The view function can be an angular view function that specifies different angular views for different pixels in the light field image based on the inputs that can include: the x or y pixel ...