ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,691, issued on March 17, was assigned to ORBBEC INC. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method, apparatus, and device for determining spectral reflection" was invented by Shaoguang Shi (Shenzhen, China), Xiaobo Lv (Shenzhen, China), Min Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Yaqin Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: obtaining a registration depth map and a target spectral image; obtaining depth information of a target point from the registration depth map, and obtaining a first grayscale value of the target point; calculating 3D coordinate information of the target point according to the depth information of the target poin...