US Patent Issued to Nvidia on Sept. 30 for "Differentiable object insertion using hybrid lighting volumes for synthetic data generation" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,842, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Differentiable object insertion using hybrid lighting volumes for synthetic data generation" was invented by Sanja Fidler (Toronto), Zian Wang (Toronto), Jan Kautz (Lexington, Mass.) and Wenzheng Chen (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods generate a hybrid lighting model for rendering objects within an image. The hybrid lighting model includes lighting effects attributed to a first source, such as the sun, and to a second source, such as spatially-varying effects of objects within the image. The hybrid lighting model may be generated ...