ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,193, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Independent scene movement based on mask layers" was invented by Rakesh Raju Chenna Madhavuni (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems are provided for image generation. For instance, a process can include rendering an image of a scene, the scene including a first virtual object associated with a first physical object that moves independently of the scene, identifying a first set of pixels associated with the first virtual object in the image of the scene, generating a mask layer based on the first set of pixels, the mask layer indicating loca...