ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,745, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to OKUMA Corp. (Niwa-Gun, Japan).
"Three-dimensional point cloud data processing system" was invented by Shigemoto Hirota (Aichi, Japan), Akihito Kataoka (Aichi, Japan) and Takayuki Otomo (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional point cloud data processing system includes: one or more cameras that image an object to acquire one or more items of brightness information; and a controller that calculates point cloud data of the object from the one or more items of brightness information. The controller calculates at least one bounding box (BB), which surrounds the object and is...