ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,573, issued on May 20, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Neural shading of reflective surfaces" was invented by Vladislav Shakhrai (London), Sergey Demyanov (Santa Monica, Calif.), Aleksei Stoliar (Marina del Rey, Calif.) and Istvan Marton (Encino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives an object mesh, information related to a viewpoint for rendering an image of an object having a reflective surface, and a set of maps. The subject technology generates a rasterized RGB (Red Green Blue) image based on the object mesh, the viewpoint, and the set of maps. The subject technology generates, u...