US Patent Issued to Snap on Aug. 11 for "Photometric-based 3D object modeling" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,770, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Photometric-based 3D object modeling" was invented by Oliver Woodford (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: accessing a source image depicting a target structure; accessing one or more target images depicting at least a portion of the target structure; computing correspondence between a first set of pixels in the source image of a first portion of the target structure and a second set of pixels in the one or more target images of the first porti...