US Patent Issued to NEC Corporation Of America on March 24 for "Controlled illumination for improved 3D model reconstruction" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,298, issued on March 24, was assigned to NEC Corporation Of America (Herzlia, Israel).

"Controlled illumination for improved 3D model reconstruction" was invented by Tsvi Lev (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of improving computation of a 3 dimensional (3D) model of an object, comprising adjusting one or more illumination parameter of one or more light sources illuminating a target object having one or more high reflection surfaces, and operating one or more image sensors to capture a plurality of images depicting the target object from a plurality of different viewpoints while the object ...