ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,020, issued on March 11, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Image signal representing a scene" was invented by Wilhelmus Hendricus Alfonsus Bruls (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Christiaan Varekamp (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Bart Kroon (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a receiver (301) receiving an image signal representing a scene. The image signal includes image data comprising a number of images where each image comprises pixels that represent an image property of the scene along a ray having a ray direction from a ray origin. The ray origins are different p...