US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on July 15 for "Displacement detection method, image-capturing instruction method, displacement detection device, and image-capturing instruction device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,424, issued on July 15, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Displacement detection method, image-capturing instruction method, displacement detection device, and image-capturing instruction device" was invented by Satoshi Yoshikawa (Hyogo, Japan), Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan), Toru Matsunobu (Osaka, Japan), Masaki Fukuda (Osaka, Japan) and Kensho Teranishi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A displacement detection method, performed by a computer, includes: obtaining (i) a first three-dimensional (3D) model representing a region at a first timing by 3D points and including ...