US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Jan. 28 for "Generation of reflectance maps for relightable 3D models" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,142, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).

"Generation of reflectance maps for relightable 3D models" 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 device and method for generation of reflectance maps for relightable 3D models is disclosed. The electronic device acquires multi-view image data that includes a set of images of an object and generates a 3D mesh of the object based on the multi-view image data. The electronic device obtains a set of motion-corrected images based on ...