US Patent Issued to Varjo Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Reducing texture lookups in extended-reality applications" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,408, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Varjo Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Reducing texture lookups in extended-reality applications" was invented by Mikko Strandborg (Helsinki) and Antti Hirvonen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus has a display area of an output image divided into a plurality of regions. For a given region of the output image, a corresponding first region in a video-see-through (VST) image and a corresponding second region in at least one virtual-reality (VR) image are determined. From a depth map corresponding to the VST image, a minimum optical depth and a maximum optical depth in the first...