ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,646, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Outward Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Rendering a modeled scene" was invented by Clarence Chui (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for rendering a scene are disclosed. In some embodiments, a scene definition is modified to generate a modified scene definition based at least in part on a current state of a local database at a device. The modified scene definition is constrained to include references to objects locally available in the local database, and at least one object referenced in the scene definition is substituted with a different object in the modified scene ...