US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Neural view synthesis using tiled multiplane images" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,819, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Neural view synthesis using tiled multiplane images" was invented by Lei Xiao (Redmond, Wash.), Douglas Robert Lanman (Bellevue, Wash.) and Numair Khalil Ullah Khan (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating tiled multiplane images from a source image is disclosed. The method includes obtaining color and depth images. The method also includes extracting a feature map using a first neural network. The method also includes generating masks for a tile using a second neural network based on a corresponding tile of th...