US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Techniques for reducing visual artifacts in foveated rendering" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,920, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Techniques for reducing visual artifacts in foveated rendering" was invented by Weihua Gao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Todd Douglas Keeler (Magrath, Canada), Steven Paul Lansel (Apopka, Fla.), Jian Zhang (Fremont, Calif.) and Tianxin Ning (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes by a computing system, rendering an image using a tile-based graphics processing unit. Determining a gaze location of a user wearing a head-mounted device and using the gaze location to select, from the multiple tiles, central ...