US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 2 for "Filtered images for 3D body tracking" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,522, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Filtered images for 3D body tracking" was invented by Yasunori Yamada (Kawaguchi, Japan), Kaoru Shinkawa (Hachioji, Japan) and Masatomo Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a system receiving an infrared (IR) image, receiving a depth map associated with the IR image, applying one or more filters to the IR image based on a set of parameters, generating a 2D pose for a subject based on the filtered IR image, and generating a 3D pose by correlating the 2D pose to the depth map."

The paten...