US Patent Issued to Outward on Sept. 30 for "Arbitrary view generation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,715, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Outward Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Arbitrary view generation" was invented by Clarence Chui (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Manu Parmar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating an arbitrary view of a scene from existing images are disclosed. In some embodiments, in response to receiving a request for an image comprising a desired perspective of a scene, the image comprising the desired perspective of the scene is generated using pixels obtained from a plurality of existing images having the desired perspective, wherein one or more of the plurality of existing i...