ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,122, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).
"Three-dimensional shape measurement apparatus and measurement method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Masayuki Iijima (Okazaki, Japan) and Sotaro Yokota (Fuchu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional shape measurement apparatus includes a projector that includes a projector lens and projects a stripe pattern, a camera that includes a camera lens and captures an image of the stripe pattern projected by the projector to acquire the captured image of the stripe pattern, and a hardware processor. The hardware proce...