US Patent Issued to Korea Institute of Science and Technology on March 24 for "Apparatus and method for generating new viewpoint image using few-shot 2D images" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,295, issued on March 24, was assigned to Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for generating new viewpoint image using few-shot 2D images" was invented by Junghyun Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Ig Jae Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seok Yeong Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jun Yong Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for generating an image, which may generate a new viewpoint image using few-shot 2D images and is characterized by extracting and learning albedo representing intrinsic color information from the few-sho...