ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,140, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Virtual walkthrough experience generation based on neural radiance field model renderings" was invented by Carlos Montero Jr. (Brier, Wash.), Marcos Seefelder de Assis Araujo (London), Cardin Everett Moffett (Denver) and Charles Goran (Lafayette, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating and providing a virtual walkthrough interface can include generating a virtual walkthrough video based on view synthesis renderings generated by neural radiance field model. The neural radiance field model can be trained based on a plurality of ...