ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,571, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generating images for neural network training" was invented by Rui Wang (Zurich), Le Chen (Zurich) and Marc Andre Leon Pollefeys (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of training examples is accessed, each training example comprising an image of a scene and a pose of a viewpoint from which the image was captured. A neural radiance field is trained using the training examples. A plurality of generated images is computed, by, for each of a plurality of randomly selected viewpoints, generating a color image and a depth image of the s...