US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on Nov. 18 for "System and methods for automated light rigging in virtual interactive environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,639, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"System and methods for automated light rigging in virtual interactive environments" was invented by Igor Borovikov (Foster City, Calif.) and Inna Cherneykina (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated light rigging system (ALRS) that adjusts, or creates, light rigs that more accurately causes lighting from light rigs and light objects to conform to, or more closely conform with, target lux values of a target lux map for one or more regions of a virtual interactive environment. The ALRS can receive light rig data to sample lux v...