US Patent Issued to Niantic Spatial on June 2 for "Sky background model" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,317, issued on June 2, was assigned to Niantic Spatial Inc (San Francisco).

"Sky background model" was invented by Erik Marshall Murphy-Chutorian (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Nicholas John Butko (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AR client device generates and uses a background model to identify portions of images that depict the sky. A background model is a model that represents where the sky is visible for the client device. To identify a sky background portion of an image, a client device can map an image onto the background model and thereby determine which portion of the image represents the sky. The client device ca...