ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,407, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Hover Inc. (San Francisco).
"Systems and methods for selective image compositing" was invented by Matthew Thomas (San Francisco), Francisco Avila-Beltran (San Francisco), David Royston Cutts (San Francisco), William Castillo (San Francisco), Giridhar Murali (San Francisco), Brandon Scott (San Francisco) and Jeffrey Sommers (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for generating a photorealistic image by augmenting or compositing at least a portion of a physical structure (e.g., a house) depicted in a two-dimensional (2D) image with synthetic image data. Additionall...