US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 18 for "Planar splatting" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,728, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Planar splatting" was invented by Farhad Ghazvinian Zanjani (Almere, Netherlands), Hong Cai (San Diego), Hanno Ackermann (Amsterdam), Leyla Mirvakhabova (Amsterdam) and Fatih Murat Porikli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for image processing. For example, a computing device can segment, using a first neural network, image(s) of a scene to determine respective segments for each of the image(s). The computing device can determine, using a second neural network, normal vectors for each of the image(s). The computing device can generate...