US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Aug. 26 for "Generation of a 3D point cloud of a scene" (Dutch, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,396, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Generation of a 3D point cloud of a scene" was invented by Quinten Dekker (The Hague, Netherlands) and Volodya Grancharov (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a 3D point cloud of a scene is performed by an image processing device. The method obtains digital images depicting the scene. Each digital image is composed of pixels. The method includes segmenting each of the digital images into digital image segments. The method includes determining a depth vector and a normal vector per each of the digital image seg...