ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,894, issued on Feb. 24, 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 of an asset, wherein each image comprising at least a subset of the set of images is rendered from a three-dimensional model of the asset, and generating an image comprising an arbitrary perspective of the asset at least in part by populating the image comprising the...