ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,748, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Methods for rendering of clipped 3D objects" was invented by Alexander K. Liberman (San Jose, Calif.), Courtland M. Idstrom (Cupertino, Calif.) and Thomas Post (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for implementing systems for rendering clipped versions of 3D objects in a computationally efficient manner, e.g., for use in extended reality (XR) environments. The techniques are designed to render the camera-facing faces and the non-camera-facing faces of a 3D object's mesh differently and, optionally, according to a clipping pl...