US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Feb. 24 for "Color and infra-red three-dimensional reconstruction using implicit radiance functions" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,893, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Color and infra-red three-dimensional reconstruction using implicit radiance functions" was invented by Ricardo Martin Brualla (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image is rendered based a neural radiance field (NeRF) volumetric representation of a scene, where the NeRF representation is based on captured frames of video data, each frame including a color image, a widefield IR image, and a plurality of depth IR images of the scene. Each depth IR image is captured when the scene is illuminated by a different pattern of points of IR light, and the illum...