US Patent Issued to Google on March 25 for "Single image 3D photography with soft-layering and depth-aware inpainting" (Massachusetts, New York, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,572, issued on March 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Single image 3D photography with soft-layering and depth-aware inpainting" was invented by Varun Jampani (Rockland, Mass.), Huiwen Chang (Mountain View, Calif.), Kyle Sargent (Cambridge, Mass.), Abhishek Kar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Richard Tucker (New York City, N.Y.), Dominik Kaeser (New York City, N.Y.), Brian L. Curless (Seattle), David Salesin (Sausalito, Calif.), William T. Freeman (Acton, Mass.), Michael Krainin (Arlington, Mass.) and Ce Liu (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining, based on an image having an initial...