US Patent Issued to FARO Technologies on July 8 for "Dynamic self-calibrating of auxiliary camera of laser scanner" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,902, issued on July 8, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Dynamic self-calibrating of auxiliary camera of laser scanner" was invented by Jafar Amiri Parian (Schlieren, Switzerland) and Hani Kaabi (Korntal-Munchingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes capturing, by a three-dimensional (3D) scanner, a 3D point cloud, and capturing, by a camera, a control image by capturing and stitching multiple images of the surrounding environment. The method further includes capturing, by an auxiliary camera, an ultrawide-angle calibration image. The method further includes dynamically calibrating the au...