US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on March 24 for "Dimension measurement method and dimension measurement device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,727, issued on March 24, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Dimension measurement method and dimension measurement device" was invented by Masaki Fukuda (Osaka, Japan), Toru Matsunobu (Osaka, Japan), Satoshi Yoshikawa (Hyogo, Japan) and Kensho Teranishi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dimension measurement method includes: extracting a plurality of lines from a plurality of images generated by shooting a target area from a plurality of viewpoints, and generating a line segment model which is a three-dimensional model of the target area that is expressed using the plura...