ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,971, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE INC. (New York).
"Material segmentation" was invented by Yair Baruch (Tel Aviv, Israel), Vsevolod Kagarlitsky (Ramat Gan, Israel), Shirley Keinan (Tel Aviv, Israel), Amir Green (Mitzpe Netofa, Israel), Yigal Eilam (Kiryat Ono, Israel), Matan Efrima (Tel Aviv, Israel), Michael Birnboim (Holon, Israel) and Gilad Talmon (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating metadata to accompany a volumetric video for texels in an object in a volumetric video. The method comprises steps of: inputting a 2D representation of the object; identifying areas...