ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,738, issued on May 20, was assigned to SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY (Guangdong, China).
"3D shape matching method and device based on 3D local feature description using SGHS" was invented by Dong Li (Guangdong, China), Sheng Ao (Guangdong, China), Jindong Tian (Guangdong, China) and Yong Tian (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D shape matching method and a 3D shape matching device based on 3D local feature description using SGHs are provided. In the method, the spherical neighborhood of the feature point is not only divided based on space but also divided based on geometry, the spherical neighborhood of the feature point is n...