ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,026, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for light estimation" was invented by Inwoo Ha (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method for light estimation includes: estimating light information corresponding to an input image using a light estimation model; detecting a reference object in the input image; determining object information of the reference object and plane information of a reference plane supporting the reference object; rendering a virtual object corresponding to the reference object based on the light ...