US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Nov. 11 for "Depth-based relighting in augmented reality" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,227, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Depth-based relighting in augmented reality" was invented by Ruofei Du (San Francisco) and David Kim (Zug, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for relighting of an augmented reality scene are provided. Image data and depth data corresponding to a physical environment may be captured by an image sensor of a computing device, for display in an AR scene generated by the computing device. The system may use the image data and depth data to generate a live depth map of the physical environment. A virtual light source may be placed in th...