US Patent Issued to SHOPIFY on July 15 for "Image generation based on tracked 3D scanning" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,636, issued on July 15, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).

"Image generation based on tracked 3D scanning" was invented by Hettige Ray Perera Jayatunga (Toronto) and Jonathan Wade (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides image generation systems and methods. The image generation method includes capturing a first 2D image corresponding to a first perspective of a 3D object, and associating the first 2D image with a set of 3D scanning data, the set of 3D scanning data comprising 3D data points corresponding to the first perspective of the 3D object. The method includes obtaining new 3D data points to i...