US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on Feb. 24 for "Configuring a robotic camera to mimic cinematographic styles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,778, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Configuring a robotic camera to mimic cinematographic styles" was invented by Evan Patrick Atherton (Foster City, Calif.), David Thomasson (Fairfax, Calif.), Heather Kerrick (Oakland, Calif.) and Maurice Ugo Conti (Muir Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control engine is trained to operate a robotic camera according to a variety of different cinematographic techniques. The control engine may reconfigure the robotic camera to respond to a set of cues, to enforce a set of constraints, or to apply one or more characteristic styles. A training engine tra...