ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,318, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"View synthesis" was invented by Deqing Sun (Providence, R.I.), Orazio Gallo (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Jan Kautz (Lexington, Mass.), Jinwei Gu (San Jose, Calif.) and Wei-Sheng Lai (Merced, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video stitching system combines video from different cameras to form a panoramic video that, in various embodiments, is temporally stable and tolerant to strong parallax. In an embodiment, the system provides a smooth spatial interpolation that can be used to connect the input video images. In an embodiment, the system applies an interpol...