ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,145, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Feedback using coverage for object scanning" was invented by Thorsten Gernoth (San Francisco), Cheng Lu (Daly City, Calif.), Hao Tang (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael P. Johnson (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein provide feedback to a user during object scanning based on how well sensor data of the scanned object has been captured. During object scanning a user may move an electronic device with sensors (e.g., cameras, depth sensors, etc.) around an object to capture sensor data for use in generating a final ...