ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,247, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Decomposing and recomposing scenes using neural radiance fields" was invented by Martina Megaro (Ostermundigen, Switzerland) and Abdelaziz Djelouah (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention sets forth a technique for performing scene decomposition. This technique includes determining, based on a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) representations of a three-dimensional (3D) scene, a different radiance field function for each of a plurality of neural radiance fields (NeRFs). The technique also includes generating a combined radiance fi...