US Patent Issued to Apple on May 12 for "Point cloud enhancement using an infill mask and synthesized representation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,450, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Point cloud enhancement using an infill mask and synthesized representation" was invented by Magnus H Johnson (San Francisco), Eric Geusz (San Francisco), Jeremy R Bernstein (San Francisco), Novaira Masood (San Jose, Calif.), Pravalika Avvaru (Union City, Calif.) and Randal W Lamore (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point cloud having occluded regions may be infilled with additional points by creating an infill mask and a synthesized representation, wherein the synthesized representation comprises generated information for points of the occluded regi...