US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 25 for "3D model generation apparatus, generation method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,180, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"3D model generation apparatus, generation method, and storage medium" was invented by Shohei Iwamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D model representing a three-dimensional shape of an object existing in an area in which image capturing areas overlap is generated by using a plurality of moving images obtained by a plurality of imaging devices. Then, in a case where the object corresponding to the generated 3D model goes out of the area, a velocity vector at the time of the object crossing a border of the area is calculated. Then, based on the calculated ...