ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,681, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).
"Method and apparatus for generating compact multiplane images" was invented by Neus Sabater (Betton, France), Julia Navarro (Palma, Spain), Julien Fleureau (Rennes, France) and Guillaume Boisson (Pleumeleuc, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for generated multiplane images from a representation of a 3D scene are disclosed. When an MPI is generated by the system, an image of the accumulation of the alpha values is computed. A convolutional networked is trained with a penalization function that penalizes MPIs with high values o...