ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,124, issued on April 1, was assigned to Himax Technologies Ltd. (Tainan, Taiwan).
"Structured-light 3D scanning system and method" was invented by Hsueh-Tsung Lu (Tainan, Taiwan), Ching-Wen Wang (Tainan, Taiwan), Cheng-Che Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan) and Wu-Feng Chen (Tainan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structured-light three-dimensional (3D) scanning system includes a projector that emits a projected light with a predetermined pattern onto an object; an image capture device that generates a captured image according to a reflected light reflected from the object, the predetermined pattern of the projected light being distorted ...