US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on March 17 for "Systems, methods, and media for generating visualization of physical environment in artificial reality" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,747, issued on March 17, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and media for generating visualization of physical environment in artificial reality" was invented by Gaurav Chaurasia (Meilen, Switzerland), Jan Oberlander (Binningen, Switzerland), Ricardo da Silveira Cabral (Zurich) and Paul Timothy Furgale (Thalwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method by a computing system comprising a color camera and two monochrome cameras respectively associated with two eyes of a user includes computing a point cloud corresponding to a visible environment based ...