US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITEIT GENT, IMEC VZW on May 12 for "Light field rendering" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,481, issued on May 12, was assigned to UNIVERSITEIT GENT (Ghent, Belgium) and IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"Light field rendering" was invented by Martijn Courteaux (Ghent, Belgium), Glenn Van Wallendael (Gentbrugge, Belgium) and Peter Lambert (Torhout, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for light field rendering includes: obtaining an n-dimensional mixture model, with n a natural number equal to or larger than 4, of a light field. The model is made of kernels wherein each kernel represents light information and is expressed by parameter values; mathematically reducing the n-dimensional mixture model into a 2-dimensional m...