US Patent Issued to Magic Leap on Aug. 25 for "Methods to improve the perceptual quality of foveated rendered images" (Florida, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,317, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Methods to improve the perceptual quality of foveated rendered images" was invented by Bing Wu (Davie, Fla.), Bjorn Nicolaas Servatius Vlaskamp (Seattle), Howard Russell Cohen (Weston, Fla.) and Jose Felix Rodriguez (Hialeah, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes rendering a foveated image that includes a foveated zone and a peripheral zone. The foveated zone has a first set of image data and is rendered at a first pixel resolution and the peripheral zone has a second set of image data and is rendered at a second, lower, pixel resolution. The...