ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,251, issued on July 15, was assigned to SeeScan Inc. (San Diego).
"Systems and methods for inspection animation" was invented by Michael P. Nichols (Temecula, Calif.), Alexander L Warren (Escondido, Calif.) and Michael J. Martin (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application discloses various systems and methods for generating and utilizing computer animation transition methods and systems in the leveling of a video to an upright, earth normal orientation which may be used in pipe inspections. Such computer animation transitions may be generated from a single inspection image at one time in the inspection video or from sub...