US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on April 21 for "Methods and apparatus to generate three dimensional (3D) point clouds based on spatiotemporal light patterns" (Texas, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,832, issued on April 21, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to generate three dimensional (3D) point clouds based on spatiotemporal light patterns" was invented by Jeffrey Kempf (Dallas), Kevin Tomei (Dallas), Tyler Bower (Denver) and Eric Pruett (Denton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to generate 3D point clouds based on spatiotemporal light patterns are disclosed. A controller includes processor circuitry to execute the instructions to generate a series of light patterns based on a set of light pattern tiles. Each of the light patte...