US Patent Issued to Varjo Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Image signal processing based on occlusion culling" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,844, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Varjo Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Image signal processing based on occlusion culling" was invented by Antti Hirvonen (Helsinki) and Mikko Strandborg (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system comprising data repository(ies) and server(s) configured to: access, from data repository(ies), a first three-dimensional (3D) model of a virtual environment and a second 3D model of a real-world environment; combine the first 3D model and the second 3D model to generate a combined 3D model of an extended-reality (XR) environment; perform occlusion culling using the combined 3D model, ...