ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,428, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Nevermind Capital LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Methods and apparatus rendering images using point clouds representing one or more objects" was invented by Hector Medina (Laguna Beach, Calif.), David Cole (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Alan Moss (Laguna Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A background image is also generated, e.g., by filling portions of a captured image where a foreground object was extracted and communicated to the playback device, Foreground objects are identified and point cloud representations of the foreground objects are generated and communicated to a playback device so ...