ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,826, issued on April 21, was assigned to Fyusion Inc. (San Francisco).
"Viewpoint path modeling" was invented by Krunal Ketan Chande (San Francisco), Stefan Johannes Josef Holzer (San Mateo, Calif.), Wook Yeon Hwang (San Francisco), Alexander Jay Bruen Trevor (San Francisco) and Shane Griffith (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of images may be captured by a camera as the camera moves along a path through space around an object. Then, a smoothed function (e.g., a polynomial) may be fitted to the translational and/or rotational position in space. For example, positions in a Cartesian coordinates pace may be determined fo...