US Patent Issued to Google on June 24 for "Displaying objects based on a plurality of models" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,897, issued on June 24, was assigned to Google Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Displaying objects based on a plurality of models" was invented by Janne Matias Kontkanen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is provided for displaying surfaces of an object from a vantage point different from the vantage point from which imagery of the object was captured. In some aspects, imagery may be generated for display by combining visual characteristics from multiple source images and applying greater weight to the visual characteristics of some of the source images relative to the other source images. The weight may ...