US Patent Issued to Nant Holdings IP on March 4 for "Augmented reality content rendering via albedo models, systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,174, issued on March 4, was assigned to Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Augmented reality content rendering via albedo models, systems and methods" was invented by Matheen M. Siddiqui (Long Beach, Calif.) and Kamil A. Wnuk (Playa del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for rendering augmented reality (AR) content are presented. An a priori defined 3D albedo model of an object is leveraged to adjust AR content so that is appears as a natural part of a scene. Disclosed devices recognize a known object having a corresponding albedo model. The devices compare the observed object to the known albedo model to de...