Patents Assigned to Outward, Inc.
  • Patent number: 12608878
    Abstract: Techniques for generating an arbitrary view of an asset are disclosed. In some embodiments, arbitrary view generation includes storing a set of images associated with an asset in a database and generating an image comprising a requested view of the asset using at least a subset of the set of images associated with the asset that are stored in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • Patent number: 12586297
    Abstract: A content generation platform is generally described herein. More specifically, interactive image generation and techniques and features thereof are disclosed herein. An arbitrary input image captured in an unknown environment is processed using one or more machine learning based networks to generate an interactive reconstruction or floorplan of the input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar, Akshansh Chaudhry, Himanshu Jain, Andrew Pang, Lakshay Sharma, Brook Aaron Seaton
  • Patent number: 12579743
    Abstract: Techniques for generating aligned, augmented reality views are disclosed. In some embodiments, an estimate of a floorplan of a three-dimensional space is first generated based on one or more received views of the three-dimensional space from a camera located in the three-dimensional space. A camera pose of the camera in the three-dimensional space is next determined based on generating a corrected floorplan from the estimate of the floorplan based on foreknowledge associated with the floorplan. Display of a rendering having the determined camera pose is facilitated in an actual view of the camera, resulting in an aligned, augmented reality view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Manu Parmar, Brook Seaton, Clarence Chui
  • Patent number: 12561894
    Abstract: Techniques for generating an arbitrary view of an asset are disclosed. In some embodiments, arbitrary view generation includes storing a set of images of an asset, wherein each image comprising at least a subset of the set of images is rendered from a three-dimensional model of the asset, and generating an image comprising an arbitrary perspective of the asset at least in part by populating the image comprising the arbitrary perspective with pixels harvested from one or more images comprising the set of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • Patent number: 12555312
    Abstract: Techniques for generating an arbitrary view or perspective of an ensemble scene are disclosed. In some embodiments, in response to a received request for a prescribed perspective of an ensemble scene comprising a plurality of assets, an output image of the ensemble scene that approximates the requested prescribed perspective is generated using existing images of the plurality of assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar, Brook Aaron Seaton, Himanshu Jain
  • Patent number: 12555311
    Abstract: Techniques for generating a prescribed perspective of a composite object are disclosed. In some embodiments, a specification of a composite object comprising a plurality of objects is specified using object views of the plurality of objects that comprise a fixed depth, and a prescribed perspective of the composite object is at least in part generated by populating the prescribed perspective of the composite object with pixels from existing images of the plurality of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar, Brook Seaton
  • Patent number: 12530838
    Abstract: A content generation platform is generally described herein. More specifically, interactive image generation and techniques and features thereof are disclosed herein. One or more sets of images of a scene are captured in an imaging studio. The captured one or more sets of images of the scene are processed using one or more machine learning based networks to generate an interactive image of the scene comprising a plurality of interactive features. One or more of the plurality of interactive features of the generated interactive image may be modified or edited according to user preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Himanshu Jain, Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar, Akshansh Chaudhry, Andrew Pang, Lakshay Sharma, Brook Aaron Seaton
  • Patent number: 12524955
    Abstract: A machine learning based image processing and generation framework is disclosed. In some embodiments, depth values of an object or asset in a received input image are at least in part determined using a machine learning based framework that is constrained to a known prescribed environment. Determined depth values facilitate generation of other views of the object or asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar, Amogh Subbakrishna Adishesha, Harshul Gupta, Avinash Venkata Uppuluri
  • Patent number: 12469212
    Abstract: A content generation platform is generally described herein. More specifically, interactive image generation and techniques and features thereof are disclosed herein. One or more sets of images of a scene are captured in an imaging studio. The captured one or more sets of images of the scene are processed using one or more machine learning based networks to generate an interactive image of the scene comprising a plurality of interactive features. One or more of the plurality of interactive features of the generated interactive image may be modified or edited according to user preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2025
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Pang, Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar, Marc Mignard, Avinash Venkata Uppuluri, John Le
  • Patent number: 12462473
    Abstract: A content generation platform is generally described herein. More specifically, interactive image generation and techniques and features thereof are disclosed herein. One or more sets of images of a scene are captured in an imaging studio. The captured one or more sets of images of the scene are processed using one or more machine learning based networks to generate an interactive image of the scene comprising a plurality of interactive features. One or more of the plurality of interactive features of the generated interactive image may be modified or edited according to user preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2025
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Avinash Venkata Uppuluri, Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • Patent number: 12430715
    Abstract: Techniques for generating an arbitrary view of a scene from existing images are disclosed. In some embodiments, in response to receiving a request for an image comprising a desired perspective of a scene, the image comprising the desired perspective of the scene is generated using pixels obtained from a plurality of existing images having the desired perspective, wherein one or more of the plurality of existing images are transformed to the desired perspective from other perspectives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • Patent number: 12374032
    Abstract: A content generation platform is generally described herein. More specifically, interactive image generation and techniques and features thereof are disclosed herein. One or more sets of images of a scene are captured in an imaging studio. The captured one or more sets of images of the scene are processed using one or more machine learning based networks to generate an interactive image of the scene comprising a plurality of interactive features. One or more of the plurality of interactive features of the generated interactive image may be modified or edited according to user preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar, Marc Mignard, Avinash Venkata Uppuluri, Jodhvir Singh Chahal, John Le
  • Patent number: 12374022
    Abstract: Techniques associated with adaptive sampling are disclosed. In some embodiments, in response to receiving a specification of a scene to render, a sampling of each portion of the scene is determined based at least in part on the specification of the scene such that the scene is not uniformly sampled, and the scene is rendered according to the determined sampling of each portion of the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • Patent number: 12368833
    Abstract: Techniques for generating three-dimensional content from the recordings of one or more independently operated cameras that are not constrained to fixed positions and orientations are disclosed. In some embodiments, data associated with a camera recording a scene is received, wherein camera pose with respect to the scene is not known; camera pose with respect to the scene is determined based on received image data captured by the camera and received sensor data associated with the camera; and the received data and determined camera pose are used to facilitate generation of at least a portion of a point cloud corresponding to the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventor: Clarence Chui
  • Patent number: 12347026
    Abstract: A content generation platform is generally described herein. More specifically, interactive image generation and techniques and features thereof are disclosed herein. One or more sets of images of a scene are captured in an imaging studio. The captured one or more sets of images of the scene are processed using one or more machine learning based networks to generate an interactive image of the scene comprising a plurality of interactive features. One or more of the plurality of interactive features of the generated interactive image may be modified or edited according to user preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Mignard, Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar, Avinash Venkata Uppuluri, John Le
  • Patent number: 12322038
    Abstract: A content generation platform is generally described herein. More specifically, interactive image generation and techniques and features thereof are disclosed herein. One or more sets of images of a scene are captured in an imaging studio. The captured one or more sets of images of the scene are processed using one or more machine learning based networks to generate an interactive image of the scene comprising a plurality of interactive features. One or more of the plurality of interactive features of the generated interactive image may be modified or edited according to user preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Himanshu Jain, Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar, Akshansh Chaudhry, Lakshay Sharma, Brook Aaron Seaton
  • Patent number: 12198308
    Abstract: A machine learning based image processing architecture and associated applications are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a machine learning framework is trained to learn low level image attributes such as object/scene types, geometries, placements, materials and textures, camera characteristics, lighting characteristics, contrast, noise statistics, etc. Thereafter, the machine learning framework may be employed to detect such attributes in other images and process the images at the attribute level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar
  • Patent number: 12170044
    Abstract: Two-dimensional compositing that preserves the curvatures of non-flat surfaces is disclosed. In some embodiments, a mapping is associated with a two-dimensional rendering that maps a potentially variable portion of the two-dimensional rendering to a canvas. The mapping is generated from a three-dimensional model of the potentially variable portion of the two-dimensional rendering. The potentially variable portion of the two-dimensional rendering is dynamically modified according to the mapping to reflect content comprising the canvas or edits received with respect to the canvas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Christopher Murphy
  • Patent number: 12056812
    Abstract: A content generation platform is generally described herein. More specifically, interactive image generation and techniques and features thereof are disclosed herein. One or more sets of images of a scene are captured in an imaging studio. The captured one or more sets of images of the scene are processed using one or more machine learning based networks to generate an interactive image of the scene comprising a plurality of interactive features. One or more of the plurality of interactive features of the generated interactive image may be modified or edited according to user preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Chui, Manu Parmar, Marc Mignard, Avinash Venkata Uppuluri, John Le, Andrew Pang
  • Patent number: 12051160
    Abstract: Techniques for tagging virtualized content are disclosed. In some embodiments, a modeled three-dimensional scene of objects representing abstracted source content is generated and analyzed to determine a contextual characteristic of the scene that is based on a plurality of objects comprising the scene. The modeled scene is tagged with a tag specifying the determined contextual characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Outward, Inc.
    Inventor: Clarence Chui