ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,418, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Method and apparatus for generating adaptive multiplane images" was invented by Neus Sabater (Betton, France), Julia Navarro (Palma, Spain), Julien Fleureau (Rennes, France) and Bertrand Chupeau (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for generating a multiplane image from a representation of a 3D scene are disclosed. Given a representation of the 3D scene, for example as a multiview image, a first MPI is generated by a convolutional neural network trained for generating a MPI according to a provided sampling of the depths...