US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises, ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) on Jan. 20 for "Relightable neural radiance field model" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,839, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Disney Enterprises INC. (Burbank, Calif.) and ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Relightable neural radiance field model" was invented by Derek Edward Bradley (Zurich, Switzerland), Prashanth Chandran (Zurich, Switzerland), Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo (Zurich, Switzerland), Yingyan Xu (Zurich, Switzerland) and Gaspard Zoss (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention sets forth a technique for generating two-dimensional (2D) renderings of a three-dimensional (3D) scene from an arbitrary camera position under arbitrary li...