US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on May 19 for "Generating a virtual surface corresponding to a planar real-world surface and associating a virtual object with a specific virtual surface that is selected based on conditions in a query" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,068, issued on May 19, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Generating a virtual surface corresponding to a planar real-world surface and associating a virtual object with a specific virtual surface that is selected based on conditions in a query" was invented by Yuichi Taguchi (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Fabian Langguth (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data of a scene captured using one or more sensors, generating (1) a number of virtual surfaces representing a number of detected planar surfaces in the scene and (2) a point cloud re...