US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 11 for "Method and an electronic apparatus for acquiring a floor map of a room layout" (Chinese, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,142, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and an electronic apparatus for acquiring a floor map of a room layout" was invented by Juan Liu (Nanjing, China), Huasin Wang (Nanjing, China), Sukun Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Longhai Wu (Nanjing, China) and Jie Chen (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an electronic apparatus for acquiring a floor map of a room layout are provided. The method includes acquiring a depth map and a two-dimensional (2D) image of an interior of a room; identifying a boundary line between a ceiling and a wall of the room in t...