ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,437, issued on June 16, was assigned to Scalable Display Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"System and method for projection mapping" was invented by Tyler M. Johnson (South Boston, Mass.) and Kevin Amaratunga (Belmont, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a process for accurately aligning projection mapping systems using the assistance of camera sensors. The calibration process involves first projecting a modulated gray code image sequence that allows the calibration cameras to identify a dense set of image correspondences between the calibration cameras and the projectors. The calibration cameras are then aligned t...