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Outward, Inc.

Outward, Inc. demonstrates a strong, albeit consolidating, focus on core imaging technologies, with Image Processing accounting for 92.7% of its portfolio. While Computer Vision saw rapid growth of +60.0% in 2024 and +37.5% in 2025, its sharp decline of -45.5% so far in 2026, alongside -100.0% declines in Machine Learning & AI and Pattern Recognition & ML Models for the current year, suggests a significant shift away from these advanced computing areas, despite their prior emergence.

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82 US filings (since 2023) · 7 categories · 8 themes

Video Quality & Encoding Optimization

Methods and apparatus for improving the visual fidelity, resolution, or compression efficiency of video signals, often through advanced processing, up-scaling, or neural network-based filters.

Pictorial / Video CommunicationsComputer Vision
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37since 2023
-81.2%YoY
Interactive & Generative Display Systems

Technologies that create dynamic and interactive visual content for displays, including virtual/wearable systems, by generating overlays, replacing input streams, or merging real-time user actions with digital environments.

Pictorial / Video Communications
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36since 2023
+83.3%YoY
Generative AI for Images

Techniques utilizing deep learning models like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or diffusion models to create new images, modify existing ones, or generate synthetic data based on various inputs or conditions.

Image ProcessingComputer Vision
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30since 2023
+100.0%YoY
Real-time Graphics Rendering

Techniques and hardware architectures designed to efficiently generate and display complex 3D graphics, particularly for interactive applications like virtual reality, focusing on speed and visual quality.

Image Processing
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25since 2023
-55.6%YoY
Video Enhancement & Object Tracking

Methods and systems for improving the quality of video streams, generating intermediate frames, or continuously locating and following objects within a sequence of images, even under occlusion.

Image Processing
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8since 2023
-66.7%YoY
Efficient Visual Feature Extraction

Algorithms and hardware optimizations for rapidly identifying and characterizing relevant visual features (e.g., objects, motion, gradients) from images or video streams, often integrating machine learning for feature representation and recognition, with a focus on real-time performance and reduced computational cost.

Pattern Recognition & ML Models
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7since 2023
-33.3%YoY
Multi-Sensor Imaging & Synthesis

Systems that combine data from multiple camera sensors or capture multiple images from different perspectives or qualities, often involving image processing techniques like synthesis to create enhanced or comprehensive views.

Pictorial / Video Communications
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3since 2023
new
3D Reconstruction & Modeling

Processes for creating or manipulating three-dimensional digital representations of objects or environments, including mesh generation, surface fitting, and depth estimation from multiple views.

Image Processing
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2since 2023
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Patents

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US 20260148490 A1APPLICATION
G06T15/50

INTERACTIVE IMAGE GENERATION

Filed:2026-01-20Pub:2026-05-28
Applicant:Outward, Inc.

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.

US 20260148485 A1APPLICATION
G06T15/20

ARBITRARY VIEW GENERATION

Filed:2026-01-20Pub:2026-05-28
Applicant:Outward, Inc.

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 generated without an underlying 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.

US 20260148484 A1APPLICATION
G06T15/20

ARBITRARY VIEW GENERATION

Filed:2026-01-20Pub:2026-05-28
Applicant:Outward, Inc.

Techniques for generating a prescribed perspective of a scene are disclosed. In some embodiments, a specification of a scene that does not comprise depth information is received and a prescribed perspective of the scene with depth is at least in part generated by populating the prescribed perspective of the scene with depth with pixels from existing images.

US 20260141624 A1APPLICATION
G06T15/20

ARBITRARY VIEW GENERATION

Filed:2026-01-12Pub:2026-05-21
Applicant:Outward, Inc.

Techniques for generating an arbitrary view or perspective of a scene are disclosed. In some embodiments, in response to a received request for a prescribed perspective of a scene comprising a plurality of objects, an output image of the scene that represents the requested prescribed perspective is generated using images of objects comprising the scene, wherein the output image approximates the prescribed perspective but is not completely perspective correct.

US 20260120395 A1APPLICATION
G06T15/50

INTERACTIVE IMAGE GENERATION

Filed:2025-12-22Pub:2026-04-30
Applicant:Outward, Inc.

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.

US 20260112105 A1APPLICATION
G06T15/50

INTERACTIVE IMAGE GENERATION

Filed:2025-09-24Pub:2026-04-23
Applicant:Outward, Inc.

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.

US 12608878 B2GRANTED
G06T15/20

Arbitrary view generation

Filed:2021-11-30Pub:2026-04-21
Applicant:Outward, Inc.

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.

US 20260105681 A1APPLICATION
G06T15/20

ARBITRARY VIEW GENERATION

Filed:2025-12-17Pub:2026-04-16
Applicant:Outward, Inc.

A machine learning based image processing and generation framework is disclosed. In some embodiments, depth values of an image comprising a scene are determined by estimating depth values and subsequently refining the estimated depth values at least in part using a machine learning based framework. Determined depth values facilitate generation of other views or perspectives of the scene.

US 12586297 B2GRANTED
G06T15/50

Interactive image generation

Filed:2022-10-14Pub:2026-03-24
Applicant:Outward, Inc.

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.

US 20260080610 A1APPLICATION
G06T15/50

INTERACTIVE IMAGE GENERATION

Filed:2025-09-26Pub:2026-03-19
Applicant:Outward, Inc.

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.

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