US Patent Issued to Niantic Spatial on Sept. 15 for "3D reconstruction without 3D convolutions" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,906, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Niantic Spatial Inc. (San Francisco).

"3D reconstruction without 3D convolutions" was invented by Mohamed Sayed (London), John Gibson (Sunnyvale, Calif.), James Watson (London), Victor Adrian Prisacariu (Oxford, Great Britain), Michael David Firman (London) and Clement Godard (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A depth estimation module may receive a reference image and a set of source images of an environment. The depth module may receive image features of the reference image and the set of source images. The depth module may generate a 4D feature volume that includes the image fea...