ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,272, issued on March 3, was assigned to Himax Technologies Ltd. (Tainan City, Taiwan).
"3D scanning system and method" was invented by Min-Chian Wu (Tainan City, Taiwan), Ting-Sheng Hsu (Tainan City, Taiwan), Ching-Wen Wang (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Cheng-Che Tsai (Tainan City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional (3D) scanning system includes a projector that generates an emitted light projected on an object, a reflected light being reflected from the object; a sensor that generates image data according to the reflected light; and a depth processor that generates depth data according to the image data and at lea...