ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,226, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Communication sessions using object information" was invented by Bradley W. Peebler (Redwood City, Calif.) and Alexandre Da Veiga (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations use object information to facilitate a communication session. Some implementations create a dense reconstruction (e.g., a point cloud or triangular mesh) of a physical environment, for example, using light intensity images and depth sensor data. A less data-intensive object information is also created to represent the physical environment for more efficient storage,...