ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,735, issued on June 30, was assigned to AIRIS GmbH (Bueren, Germany).
"Method and apparatus for optical detection and analysis in a movement environment" was invented by Pascal Siekmann (Bueren, Germany) and Gerhard Dick (Lippstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a device and a corresponding method for optical recognition and analysis, in particular of bodies, body parts and/or joints of a person, surfaces and objects in a 3-dimensional movement area in real time, with one or more cameras with fisheye lens, which are arranged at a distance and position from the movement area specifically selected for the applicati...