ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,330, issued on March 24, was assigned to X-RITE EUROPE GMBH (Regensdorf, Switzerland).
"Displaying a virtual object in a real-life scene" was invented by Martin Rump (Winderscheid, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for displaying a virtual object (140), a scene (100) is imaged. The scene comprises a target apparatus (120). The target apparatus comprises a set of color target elements (121) having known reflectance properties and at least one illumination target element (122) having a plurality of known surface normals. At least one image of the scene is processed to determine measured colors for the color target ele...