US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on March 24 for "Scene reconstruction from monocular video" (California, Washington, Texas, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,293, issued on March 24, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Scene reconstruction from monocular video" was invented by Christopher B. Choy (Los Angeles), Or Litany (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Charles Loop (Redmond, Wash.), Yuke Zhu (Austin, Texas), Animashree Anandkumar (Pasadena, Calif.) and Wei Dong (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for reconstructing a three-dimensional scene from monocular video adaptively allocates an explicit sparse-dense voxel grid with dense voxel blocks around surfaces in the scene and sparse voxel blocks further from the surfaces. In contrast to conventional systems, the two...