US Patent Issued to Konica Minolta, Tohoku University on Oct. 28 for "Three-dimensional shape measuring method and three-dimensional shape measuring apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,162, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo) and Tohoku University (Miyagi, Japan).

"Three-dimensional shape measuring method and three-dimensional shape measuring apparatus" was invented by Hidechika Ito (Sendai, Japan), Shingo Kagami (Sendai, Japan), Koichi Hashimoto (Sendai, Japan), Daichi Suzuki (Tachikawa, Japan), Yoshiyuki Toso (Toyokawa, Japan) and Yoshihiro Inagaki (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional shape measuring method includes: a first step to: project first and second projection images on a target object, wherein the first projection images include row-direction str...