ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,623, issued on March 24, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Image synthesis" was invented by Christiaan Varekamp (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Bart Kroon (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first apparatus comprises a first receiver (301) receiving images of a scene captured and a second receiver (303) receives 3D spatial data for the scene A view synthesis neural network (307) generates view shifted images for the scene for different view poses from the images and the spatial data. A neural network trainer (309) trains the view synthesis neural network (307) based on images of th...