ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,878, issued on April 21, was assigned to Outward Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Arbitrary view generation" was invented by Clarence Chui (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Manu Parmar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating an arbitrary view of an asset are disclosed. In some embodiments, arbitrary view generation includes storing a set of images associated with an asset in a database and generating an image comprising a requested view of the asset using at least a subset of the set of images associated with the asset that are stored in the database."
The patent was filed on Nov. 30, 2021, under Applicatio...