US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 20 for "Depth buffer dilation for remote rendering" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,582, issued on May 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Depth buffer dilation for remote rendering" was invented by Christian Voss-Wolff (Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improving remote rendering and reprojection are disclosed herein. A color image is generated, where this color image includes overlapping content regions. A depth buffer is generated for the color image and includes depth values for the pixels in the color image. The depth buffer includes both essential and non-essential depth discontinuities. While preserving the essential depth discontinu...