ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,457, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Multicore system for neural rendering" was invented by Chaolin Rao (Shanghai), Minye Wu (Shanghai), Xin Lou (Shanghai), Pingqiang Zhou (Shanghai) and Jingyi Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image rendering system comprising a preprocessing unit coupled to a feature extract unit and a color rendering unit over a data bus. The preprocessing unit generates vector representations of spatial coordinates of sample points along camera rays corresponding to pixels of an image to be rendered. The feature extract unit generates a feature map of the image...