ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,377, issued on June 10, was assigned to Black Sesame Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Obtaining method for image coordinates of position invisible to camera, calibration method and system" was invented by Huiyan Li (Shanghai), Yangyang Li (Shanghai), Tao Zhang (Shanghai) and Yicheng Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An obtaining method for image coordinates of a position invisible to a camera, a calibration method and a system are disclosed. A first color image and corresponding depth image of a position to be measured invisible to a main camera are obtained from a depth camera. The depth camera is positioned so th...