ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,396, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for generating pattern and method and apparatus for decoding pattern" was invented by Junghyun Byun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yeonghyeon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Changmin Keum (Suwon-si, South Korea), Myungho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jungkweon Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating a pattern, and projecting the pattern. A plurality of elements are arranged in the pattern. The method further includes selecting a color for each of the plurality of elements from a...