ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,763, issued on March 24, was assigned to NACHI-FUJIKOSHI CORP. (Tokyo).

"Environment map generation program and three-dimensional sensor control device" was invented by Makoto Imaoka (Toyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional sensor control device performs processes of acquiring orthogonal coordinates of data points found in a plurality of photograph frames photographed by at least one three-dimensional sensor with a fixed photographing range and converting the orthogonal coordinates of the data points into polar coordinates using a first formula for conversion from orthogonal coordinates to polar coordinates ...