US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 27 for "3D representation of physical environment objects" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,736, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"3D representation of physical environment objects" was invented by Boyuan Sun (Beijing), Bin Liu (Beijing), Feng Tang (Cupertino, Calif.), Peng Wu (Campbell, Calif.) and Ye Cong (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations provide 3D representations of objects. Such representations may be based on 3D point cloud and/or 2D image inputs that are obtained based on sensor data, e.g., images, depth data, motion data, etc. 3D point cloud input may be used for part segmentation and/or to determine position and/or orientation of object par...