US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Feb. 17 for "Robustifying NeRF model novel view synthesis to sparse data" (German, British, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,309, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Robustifying NeRF model novel view synthesis to sparse data" was invented by Noha Radwan (Zurich), Jonathan Tilton Barron (Alameda, Calif.), Benjamin Joseph Mildenhall (London), Seyed Mohammad Mehdi Sajjadi (Berlin) and Michael Niemeyer (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for training a neural radiance field model can include the use of image patches for ground truth training. For example, the systems and methods can include generating patch renderings with a neural radiance field model, comparing the patch renderings to grou...