ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,637, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Three-dimensional model generation method and three-dimensional model generation device for calculating an accuracy of a similar point search" was invented by Kensho Teranishi (Osaka, Japan), Satoshi Yoshikawa (Hyogo, Japan), Toru Matsunobu (Osaka, Japan) and Masaki Fukuda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional model generation method executed by an information processing device includes: obtaining images generated by shooting a subject from respective viewpoints; searching for a similar point that is s...