ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,443, issued on June 16, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Viewpoint synthesis with enhanced 3D perception" was invented by Seppo Valli (Espoo, Finland) and Pekka Siltanen (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods relate to segmenting object(s) of the first image data from a first viewpoint; generating respective segment texture data and segment depth data for each segmented object; arranging the segmented object(s) into a configuration based on the second viewpoint; compiling depth data corresponding to each pixel location in the configuration based on the second viewpoint; forming a synthesize...