ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,052, issued on May 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Single-pass object scanning" was invented by Rafael Felipe Veiga Saracchini (Berlin), Tobias Rick (Mountain View, Calif.) and Zachary Z. Becker (Issaquah, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that generates a three-dimensional (3D) model based on a selected subset of the images and depth data corresponding to each of the images of the subset. For example, an example process may include acquiring sensor data during movement of the device in a physical environment including an object, the...