ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,822, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"3D modeling based on neural light field" was invented by Zeng Huang (Los Angeles), Jian Ren (Marina Del Ray, Calif.), Sergey Tulyakov (Santa Monica, Calif.), Menglei Chai (Los Angeles), Kyle Olszewski (Los Angeles) and Huan Wang (Somerville, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations for generating a 3D model of a scene. The operations include: receiving a set of two-dimensional (2D) images representing a first view of a real-world environment; applying a machine learning model comprising a neural light fie...