US Patent Issued to Matterport on July 1 for "Capturing and aligning panoramic image and depth data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,698, issued on July 1, was assigned to Matterport Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Capturing and aligning panoramic image and depth data" was invented by Kyle Simek (San Jose, Calif.), David Alan Gausebeck (Mountain View, Calif.) and Matthew Tschudy Bell (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application generally relates to capturing and aligning panoramic image and depth data. In one embodiment, a device is provided that comprises a housing and a plurality of cameras configured to capture two-dimensional images, wherein the cameras are arranged at different positions on the housing and have different azimuth orientations r...