US Patent Issued to The Curators of the University of Missouri on Feb. 17 for "Flexible multi-camera focal plane: a light-field dynamic homography approach" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,185, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.).

"Flexible multi-camera focal plane: a light-field dynamic homography approach" was invented by Hadi Ali Akbarpour (Columbia, Mo.) and Kannappan Palaniappan (Columbia, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for using Light-Field Dynamic Homography (DH) to generate a large virtual focal plane from a non-rigid camera array with narrow overlaps between their fields of view (FOV). The method incorporates the 3D geometry of the cameras and employs non-linear least square optimization to dynamically estimate the inter-view ho...