US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on April 29 for "Systems and methods for generating splat-based differentiable two-dimensional renderings" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,295, issued on April 29, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating splat-based differentiable two-dimensional renderings" was invented by Kyle Adam Genova (San Mateo, Calif.), Daniel Vlasic (Cambridge, Mass.) and Forrester H. Cole (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the present disclosure are directed to a method that can include obtaining a 3D mesh comprising polygons and texture/shading data. The method can include rasterizing the 3D mesh to obtain a 2D raster comprising pixels and coordinates respectively associated with a subset of pixels. The method...