US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 4 for "Generating 3D representations of physical environments using key frames" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,183, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Generating 3D representations of physical environments using key frames" was invented by Yao Lu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Giulio Marin (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yu Ping Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Kyle L Simek (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ming Chuang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that use frames of sensor data to create key frames that are used to provide a 3D representation of a physical environment (e.g., a 3D mesh, planar representations, object bounding boxes, a combo of these, etc.)...