ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,237, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for synthesizing 2D image and media using inverse rendering with 3D spatially varying lighting information estimation" was invented by Junghyun Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Ig Jae Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Haesol Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jun Yong Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Seok Yeong Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for synthesizing a 2D image and media using a reverse rendering including 3D spatially varying lighting information estimation...