ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,737, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Dynamic frame selection for scene understanding" was invented by Daniel Kurz (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that dynamically selects particular frames of image data for generating three-dimensional (3D) representations of a physical environment. For example, an example process may include acquiring frames of image data from one or more sensors in a physical environment. The process may include determining one or more deterrent properties associated with the frames of i...