ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,474, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Motion detection for object scanning" was invented by Shuo Feng (San Jose, Calif.), Cheng Lu (Daly City, Calif.), Onur C. Hamsici (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Thorsten Gernoth (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations detect object movement during object scanning and alter scanning processes accordingly. For example, when movement of the object being scanned is detected, the device may stop scanning (e.g., capturing shots) and wait for the object to stop moving. When the object stops moving, the device may re-localize the scanned mode...