ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,519, issued on July 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Neural blending for novel view synthesis" was invented by Ricardo Martin Brualla (Seattle), Daniel Goldman (Seattle), Hugues Herve Hoppe (Mercer Island, Wash.), Lynn Tsai (Seattle) and Lars Peter Johannes Hedman (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for receiving a plurality of input images, a plurality of depth images, and a plurality of view parameters for generating a virtual view of a target subject. The systems and methods may generate a plurality of warped images based on the plurality of input images, the plurality o...