US Patent Issued to Magic Leap on May 13 for "Viewpoint dependent brick selection for fast volumetric reconstruction" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,828, issued on May 13, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Viewpoint dependent brick selection for fast volumetric reconstruction" was invented by Frank Thomas Steinbrucker (Mountain View, Calif.), David Geoffrey Molyneaux (San Jose, Calif.), Zhongle Wu (Weston, Fla.), Xiaolin Wei (Fremont, Calif.), Jianyuan Min (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yifu Zhang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to culling parts of a 3D reconstruction volume is provided. The method makes available to a wide variety of mobile XR applications fresh, accurate and comprehensive 3D reconstruction data with low usage of computati...