US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on July 1 for "Real-time novel view synthesis with forward warping and depth" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,700, issued on July 1, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Real-time novel view synthesis with forward warping and depth" was invented by Justin Johnson (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ang Cao (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Chris Rockwell (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fast and generalizable novel view synthesis method with sparse inputs is disclosed. The method may comprise: accessing at least a first input image with a first view of a subject in the first input image, and a second input image with a second view of the subject in the second input image using a computer system; estimating dep...