ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,346, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ResMed Sensor Technologies Ltd. (Ireland).
"Method for generating a 3D model" was invented by Peter John Myerscough-Jackopson (Oxford, Great Britain) and Leonardo Rubio Navarro (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a three-dimensional model of a head including at least a portion of a face, comprising: obtaining a distance image of the head using a distance-measuring device having an imaging position, the distance image comprising for each of a two-dimensional array of distance pixels, a respective distance value indicating a distance from the measuring posi...