ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,405, issued on May 12, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Camera calibration of a telepresence system" was invented by Guillermo Fabian Diaz Lankenau (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Alejandro Jose Troccoli (San Jose, Calif.) and Antonio Yamil Layon Halun (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telepresence system may include a display configured to present three-dimensional images. The 3D images may be rendered from multiple images captured by multiple cameras that image an area from different viewpoints. Misalignment of any of the multiple cameras may negatively affect the rendering. Accordingly, the teleprese...