ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,201, issued on March 3, was assigned to LEIA Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"View synthesis system and method using depth map" was invented by Vadym Suprun (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In multiview image generation and display, a computing device can synthesize view images of a multiview image of a scene from a color image and a depth map. Each view image can include color values at respective pixel locations. The computing device can render the view images of the multiview image on a multiview display. Synthesizing a view image can include, for a pixel location in the view image, the following operations. The computi...