US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 4 for "Representing 3D shapes with probabilistic directed distance fields" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,351, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Representing 3D shapes with probabilistic directed distance fields" was invented by Tristan Ty Aumentado-Armstrong (Toronto), Stavros Tsogkas (Toronto), Sven Josef Dickinson (Toronto) and Allan Jepson (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for representing shapes with probabilistic directed distance fields. In some embodiments, a method includes obtaining a camera representation and a latent shape vector representation of a scene. The camera represen...