US Patent Issued to Snap on Oct. 20 for "Computing a point cloud from stitched images" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,280, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Computing a point cloud from stitched images" was invented by Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen (Beverly Hills, Calif.), John Christopher Collins (Mico, Texas), Allan Joseph Evans (Los Angeles), Graham Shaw (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Vikas Gupta (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for creating a point cloud are disclosed. A first image is captured by a first camera sensor and a second image is captured by a second camera sensor. The first and the second image have an area of overlap. Location of the first camera relative to the second c...