ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,947, issued on July 7, was assigned to Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Three-dimensional point cloud generation method, apparatus and electronic device" was invented by Haijun Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a three-dimensional point cloud generation method, apparatus and an electronic device, and relates to the field of artificial intelligence technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality and computer vision. A specific scheme includes: generating a two-dimensional (2D) depth map of a first three-dimensional (3D) image; calculating gradient values of ...