ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,252, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Virtual camera for 3-D modeling applications" was invented by Suguru Nishioka (San Francisco), James McCombe (San Francisco) and Steven Blackmon (Piedmont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user interface to a virtual camera for a 3-D rendering application provides various features. A rendering engine can continuously refine the image being displayed through the virtual camera, and the user interface can contain an element for indicating capture of the image as currently displayed, which causes saving of the currently displayed ...