US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Oct. 27 for "Lighting virtualization" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,097, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Lighting virtualization" was invented by Peter Deixler (Arlington, Mass.) and Sara Shishehchi (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting appearance virtualization method includes receiving a user image of an area, luminaire information, and light appearance information. The method further includes generating, using a trained GAN, a first synthetic image based on the user image and the luminaire information. The first synthetic image shows the luminaire in the area. The method also includes generating, using a derived GAN, a second s...