ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,275, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Neural rendering using trained albedo textures" was invented by Vladislav Shakhrai (London), Sergey Demyanov (Santa Monica, Calif.), Mikhail Vasilkovskii (Playa Vista, Calif.) and Aleksei Stoliar (Marina del Rey, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations for generating a photorealistic rendering of an object. The operations include: accessing a set of albedo textures and a machine learning model associated with a real-world object, the set of albedo textures and a machine learning model having been traine...