US Patent Issued to Ricoh on April 15 for "Method and apparatus for constructing three-dimensional channel, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,645, issued on April 15, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for constructing three-dimensional channel, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Hong Yi (Beijing), Haijing Jia (Beijing), Hengzhi Zhang (Beijing), Liyan Liu (Beijing) and Wei Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for constructing a three-dimensional channel, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium are provided. In the method, a depth image corresponding to a first panoramic image is generated. Then, channel object detection is performed on the first panoramic image t...