US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on June 17 for "Shadow-based estimation of 3D lighting parameters from reference object and reference virtual viewpoint" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,646, issued on June 17, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Shadow-based estimation of 3D lighting parameters from reference object and reference virtual viewpoint" was invented by Philippe Robert (Rennes, France), Anthony Laurent (Vignoc, France), Pierrick Jouet (Rennes, France) and Tao Luo (Cesson-Sevigne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device are provided for processing images. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an image is received of a scene having a plurality of real objects and determining if at least one of these real objects is a reference object stored in a databa...