ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,549, issued on July 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Characteristic-based acceleration for efficient scene rendering" was invented by Zian Wang (Toronto), Tianchang Shen (Markham, Canada), Jun Gao (North York, Canada), Merlin Nimier-David (Nyon, Switzerland), Thomas Muller-Hohne (Baar, Switzerland), Alexander Keller (Berlin), Sanja Fidler (Toronto), Zan Gojcic (Uitikon Waldegg, Switzerland) and Nicholas Mark Worth Sharp (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, images (e.g., novel views) of an object may be rendered using an optimized number of samples of a 3D representation of the object. T...