US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 25 for "View synthesis with learned Gaussian splatting and weighted sum rendering" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,456, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"View synthesis with learned Gaussian splatting and weighted sum rendering" was invented by Qiqi Hou (San Diego), Randall Roel Rauwendaal (Larkspur, Colo.) and Amir Said (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system generates initial Gaussian elements defined by parameter sets that include, for each Gaussian element a spherical harmonics (SH) coefficient array, a learnable parameter vector, and a learnable weight vector. The system performs a training process comprising rasterizing current Gaussian elements to generate a rendered image of the scene as viewable fr...