ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,126, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Neural network-based view synthesis" was invented by Jonathan Tremblay (Redmond, Wash.), Moustafa Meshry (College Park, Md.), Charles Loop (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Towaki Takikawa (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are presented to generate images. In at least one embodiment, ray tracing is caused to be selectively performed on one or more objects within a three-dimensional (3D) environment."
The patent was filed on March 11, 2022, under Application No. 17/692,909.
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