ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,884, issued on June 16, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"System and method for synthetic image generation" was invented by Shuhui Qu (Fremont, Calif.) and Janghwan Lee (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are disclosed for synthetic image generation. In some embodiments, the system includes one or more processors; and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause performance of: receiving weather input data; receiving time input data; receiving pixel coordinates; using a light-source-modeling neural network, computing a li...