US Patent Issued to Trimble on Feb. 24 for "Capture and display of point clouds using augmented reality device" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,922, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).

"Capture and display of point clouds using augmented reality device" was invented by Adam Bursill (Christchurch, New Zealand) and Callum McLoughlin (Christchurch, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for capturing and displaying point clouds using an AR device are described. A GNSS point of the AR device is determined based on received satellite signals. A depth image is captured while the AR device is positioned at the GNSS point. The depth image is projected into 3D space to obtain a point cloud having a set of points. An accuracy of the GNS...