ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,915, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to 4Art Holding AG (Hunenberg, Switzerland).
"Method for recognizing surfaces" was invented by Kai Zeh (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recognizing surfaces, in particular for optically recognizing or identifying structured and/or pictorial surfaces involves the steps of: focusing a camera onto a prominent image dot on the surface; creating at least one live video stream of a recognizable, high-contrast area of the image dot; guiding the camera to the image frame of the video having the greatest depth of detail by focusing the camera onto a prominent image dot on the surface t...