ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,702, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Three-dimensional structured light camera device having a light source and method therefor" was invented by Tian Yu (Wuhan, China), Yuebin Wang (Jining, China) and Jianfeng Qin (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional structured light camera device includes a LUT memory and a processor configured to perform object detection and identify a 3D object area of interest of a target speckle image and perform a local adaptive binarization process that searches the LUT memory for speckle features of a stored reference speckle image and matches spe...