ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,832, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Willow Garage LLC (San Francisco).
"Point cloud data hierarchy" was invented by Eitan Marder-Eppstein (San Francisco), Stuar Glaser (San Francisco) and Wim Meeussen (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One method embodiment comprises storing data on a storage system that is representative of a point cloud comprising a very large number of associated points; organizing the data into an octree hierarchy of data sectors, each of which is representative of one or more of the points at a given octree mesh resolution; receiving a command from a user of a user interface to present an i...