US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 25 for "Applications of mono to stereo conversion" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,315, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Applications of mono to stereo conversion" was invented by Tobias Rick (Mountain View, Calif.), Alexandre Da Veiga (San Francisco), Alexander Menzies (Menlo Park, Calif.), Vladlen Koltun (Jackson, Wyo.), Vicki M Murley (Pacifica, Calif.), Dean Jackson (Yass, Australia), Chelsea E Pugh (San Francisco) and Alexa Rockwell (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that dynamically apply a 3D effect to a 2D asset. For example, a process may obtain an image depicting two-dimensional...