US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Dec. 16 for "Virtual presence for telerobotics in a dynamic scene" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,721, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Virtual presence for telerobotics in a dynamic scene" was invented by Ken Lee (Fairfax, Va.), Craig Cambias (Silver Spring, Md.) and Xin Hou (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods and systems for providing virtual presence for telerobotics in a dynamic scene. A sensor captures frames of a scene comprising one or more objects. A computing device generates a set of feature points corresponding to objects in the scene and matches the set of feature points to 3D points in a map of the scene. The computing devi...