US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Aug. 18 for "Methods and systems for deterministic calculation of surface normal vectors for sparse point clouds" (Canadian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,529, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and systems for deterministic calculation of surface normal vectors for sparse point clouds" was invented by Thomas Enxu Li (Mississauga, Canada), Ryan Razani (Toronto), Yuan Ren (Thornhill, Canada) and Bingbing Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for computing a surface normal vector for a point cloud are disclosed. A sparse range map is generated by projecting the point cloud. A vertical kernel and a horizontal kernel are used to generate a vertical kernel range map and a horizontal kernel range map from the...