US Patent Issued to Nvidia on Jan. 27 for "Texture transfer and synthesis using aligned maps in image generation systems and applications" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,729, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Texture transfer and synthesis using aligned maps in image generation systems and applications" was invented by Zhiqin Chen (Burnaby, Canada), Kangxue Yin (Toronto) and Sanja Fidler (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches presented herein can utilize a network that learns to embed three-dimensional (3D) coordinates on a surface of one or more 3D shapes into an aligned two-dimensional (2D) texture space, where corresponding parts of different 3D shapes can be mapped to the same location in a texture image. Alignment can be performed using a texture...