US Patent Issued to Sony Corporation of America, SONY GROUP on Dec. 23 for "Generation of subsurface scattering texture maps for 3D objects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,606, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Sony Corporation of America (New York) and SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Generation of subsurface scattering texture maps for 3D objects" was invented by Chen Fu (San Jose, Calif.) and Mohammad Gharavi Alkhansari (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus and method for generation of subsurface scattering texture maps for three-dimensional (3D) objects is provided. The electronic apparatus controls a set of light sources to generate a set of lighting patterns. The electronic apparatus controls a set of image capture devices to capture a set of images of an object that...