US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 27 for "Shadow map based late stage reprojection" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,728, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Shadow map based late stage reprojection" was invented by Christian Voss-Wolff (Herzberg am Harz, Germany) and Norbert Clemens Kern (Kirchberg an der Murr, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improving how LSR is performed are disclosed. A service accesses a depth image, a pose correction matrix, and a color image. The service extracts a carrier geometry from the depth image. The service forward projects the LSR carrier geometry by multiplying each vertex of the LSR carrier geometry with the pose correction matrix. While th...