ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,866, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PROPRIO INC. (Seattle).
"Light field capture, compression, transmission and reconstruction" was invented by Thomas Ivan Nonn (Kenmore, Wash.), Tze-Yuan Cheng (Bellevue, Wash.) and James Andrew Youngquist (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for collection, editing, and playback of data collected from an imaging system for generating a virtual perspective of a scene are disclosed. In one example perspective, an imaging system includes a camera array configured to capture multiple images of a scene. Each of the multiple images includes color data represented in a ...