US Patent Issued to Google on July 29 for "Determining a virtual representation of an environment by projecting texture patterns" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,686, issued on July 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Determining a virtual representation of an environment by projecting texture patterns" was invented by Gary Bradski (Mountain View, Calif.), Kurt Konolige (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ethan Rublee (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems for determining 3D scene geometry by projecting patterns of light onto a scene are provided. In an example method, a first projector may project a first random texture pattern having a first wavelength and a second projector may project a second random texture pattern having a second w...