ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,982, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ACER Inc. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Computer system and method for generating a 3D interactive scene" was invented by Sergio Cantero Clares (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Shih-Hao Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for generating a 3D interactive scene is provided. The method includes executing a first process based on the 2D source image. The first process includes estimating a corresponding depth map for the 2D source image, creating a 3D mesh based on the estimated depth map, and executing a first loop iteratively to present the 3D in...