ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,752, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"View synthesis from images and/or video using model-based inpainting" was invented by Athul Gangadharan (Payyannur, India), Vinay Melkote Krishnaprasad (Bangalore, India), Sudipto Banerjee (Kolkata, India) and Jerin Geo James (Changanacherry, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for image processing are described. For example, a computing device can receive a pose of a camera with a field-of-view (FOV) of a scene and can determine poses of the camera and/or pose(s) of other camera(s). The computing device can obtain first camera layers associat...