US Patent Issued to ACTIVE THEORY on Oct. 20 for "Method and system for encoding a 3D scene" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,874, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ACTIVE THEORY INC (Covina, Calif.).

"Method and system for encoding a 3D scene" was invented by Joshua McCready (Truckee, Calif.) and Alexander Gourley (Grass Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for encoding a scene volume includes: (a) identifying features of a scene volume that are within a camera perspective range with respect to a default camera perspective; (b) converting the identified features into rendered features; and (c) sorting the rendered features into a plurality of scene layers, each including corresponding depth, color, and transparency m...