ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,217, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Infinite-scale city synthesis" was invented by Menglei Chai (Los Angeles), Hsin-Ying Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Chieh Lin (Merced, Calif.), Willi Menapace (Santa Monica, Calif.), Aliaksandr Siarohin (Los Angeles) and Sergey Tulyakov (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An environment synthesis framework generates virtual environments from a synthesized two-dimensional (2D) satellite map of a geographic area, a three-dimensional (3D) voxel environment, and a voxel-based neural rendering framework. In an example implementation, the synthesized 2D sa...