US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Aug. 4 for "Generation of dense three-dimensional point clouds" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,171, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Generation of dense three-dimensional point clouds" was invented by Jose Araujo (Stockholm) and Volodya Grancharov (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided techniques for generating a dense 3D point cloud of a scene. A method is performed by an image processing device (400). The method comprises performing (S102) sequential matching for a set of images, obtained from an image scan of the scene, where each image has a color value and a depth value, to establish a correspondence between consecutive images in the set of imag...