US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 28 for "High-resolution multiview-consistent rendering and alpha matting from sparse views" (American, Swiss, Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,480, issued on July 28, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"High-resolution multiview-consistent rendering and alpha matting from sparse views" was invented by Sergio Orts Escolano (Zurich), Zhiwen Fan (Austin, Texas), Di Qiu (Kitchener, Canada), Yinda Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Daoye Wang (Zurich), Erroll Wood (Cambridge, Great Britain), Abhimitra Meka (San Francisco), Hossam Isack (Oakland, Calif.), Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo (Zurich), Kripasindhu Sarkar (Zurich), Thabo Beeler (Egg, Switzerland), Zhengyang Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Alexander Sahba Koumis (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in...