ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,810, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Light estimation method for three-dimensional (3D) rendered objects" was invented by Menglei Chai (Los Angeles), Sergey Demyanov (Santa Monica, Calif.), Yunqing Hu (Los Angeles), Istvan Marton (Encino, Calif.), Daniil Ostashev (London) and Aleksei Podkin (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for applying lighting conditions to a virtual object in an augmented reality (AR) device is described. In one aspect, the method includes generating, using a camera of a mobile device, an image, accessing a virtual object corresponding to an object i...