ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,955, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Outward Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Arbitrary view generation" was invented by Clarence Chui (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Manu Parmar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Amogh Subbakrishna Adishesha (State College, Pa.), Harshul Gupta (La Jolla, Calif.) and Avinash Venkata Uppuluri (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning based image processing and generation framework is disclosed. In some embodiments, depth values of an object or asset in a received input image are at least in part determined using a machine learning based framework that is constrained to a known prescribed environme...