US Patent Issued to Snap on June 17 for "Three-dimensional asset reconstruction" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,650, issued on June 17, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional asset reconstruction" was invented by Mikhail Vasilkovskii (London), Sergey Demyanov (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Vladislav Shakhrai (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional asset (3D) reconstruction technique for generating a 3D asset representing an object from images of the object. The images are captured from different viewpoints in a darkroom using one or more light sources having known locations. The system estimates camera poses for each of the captured images and then constructs a 3D surface mesh made up of surfaces using th...