US Patent Issued to Varjo Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Foveated rendering using neural radiance fields" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,841, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Varjo Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Foveated rendering using neural radiance fields" was invented by Mikko Strandborg (Helsinki) and Kimmo Roimela (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is method including: obtaining neural network(s) trained for rendering images, wherein input of neural network(s) has 3D position of point in real-world environment and output of neural network(s) includes colour and opacity of point; obtaining 3D model(s) of real-world environment; receiving viewpoint from perspective of which image is to be generated; receiving gaze direction; determining region o...