ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,209, issued on July 8, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for generating texture map for 3D wide area terrain" was invented by Hye-Sun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are an apparatus and a method for generating a texture map for a three-dimensional (3D) wide area terrain. The method for generating a texture map for a 3D wide area terrain includes acquiring input images, obtained by capturing a reconstruction target terrain at multiple views, and a camera parameter corresponding to the input images, partitioning t...