ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,733, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Single-image inverse rendering" was invented by Koki Nagano (Playa Vista, Calif.), Eric Ryan Chan (Alameda, Calif.), Sameh Khamis (Alameda, Calif.), Shalini De Mello (San Francisco), Tero Tapani Karras (Helsinki), Orazio Gallo (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Jonathan Tremblay (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single two-dimensional (2D) image can be used as input to obtain a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the 2D image. This is done by extracting features from the 2D image by an encoder and determining a 3D representation of the 2D image uti...