ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,072, issued on April 1, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).
"Scan color restoration" was invented by Raza Ul Azam (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Daniel Pompe (Leonberg, Germany) and Sebastian Grottel (Ludwigsburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described to generate a 3D scene by mapping a point cloud with a 2D image, and colorize portions of the 3D scene synthetically. An input is received to select, from the 3D scene, a portion to be colorized synthetically. The colorizing includes generating a reflectance image based on an intensity image of the point cloud. The colorizing further includes gen...