ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,173, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Enhanced full-body reconstruction using a single camera" was invented by Guoqing Zhang (Tampere, Finland) and Bennett Ng (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to generating a three-dimensional full-body reconstruction using image data from a single camera. A method may include receiving first point cloud data from the camera, the point cloud data representing a person; identifying a first human body template, the first human body template representing body joints; generating, based on a c...