US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 16 for "Athlete's perspective sports game broadcast system based on VR technology" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,613, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Athlete's perspective sports game broadcast system based on VR technology" was invented by Xiao Zhang (Beijing), Zheng Zhang (San Carlos, Calif.), Tao Xu (Cambridge, Mass.), Jie Tang (Sammamish, Wash.), Yaobo Liang (Beijing) and Yanan Wei (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure proposes a method and apparatus for image transmission for three-dimensional (3D) scene reconstruction. A target image may be obtained. A geometry feature and an appearance feature may be disentangled from the target image. An intermediat...