US Patent Issued to Carvana on Sept. 8 for "Three-dimensional stabilized 360-degree composite image capture" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,272, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Carvana LLC (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Three-dimensional stabilized 360-degree composite image capture" was invented by Bruno Francois (Atlanta) and Grant Schindler (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system may determine a direction of gravity in each image of a sequence of images around an object; estimate a center of mass of the object in each image of the sequence of images using the direction of gravity and dimensions of the object; stabilize each image in the sequence of images using the center of mass; and generate a 360 degree display of the object using each image in the stabilized seque...