ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,602, issued on May 20, was assigned to Outward Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Blended physical and virtual realities" was invented by Brook Seaton (Fremont, Calif.), Manu Parmar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Clarence Chui (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing blended physical and virtual reality experiences are disclosed. In some embodiments, a rendering of an actual view of a scene as seen by a camera capturing the scene is obtained from existing assets associated with a virtualized version of the scene and displayed. The actual view of the scene comprises a known environment that includes one or more...