ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,732, issued on June 23.
"Methods and systems for generating a three-dimensional representation of a scene" was invented by Chengjie Huang (Kitchener, Canada), Vahdat Abdelzad (Waterloo, Canada), Sean Albert Sedwards (Kitchener, Canada), Krzysztof Czarnecki (Waterloo, Canada) and Eduardo R. Corral-Soto (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a scene are provided. The method comprises: accessing a series of 3D point clouds; detecting an object in a first 3D point cloud from the series; upon receiving a second 3D point cloud successive to the first 3D point cl...