ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,429, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Three-dimensional object reconstruction" was invented by Riza Alp Guler (London) and Iason Kokkinos (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to reconstructing three-dimensional models of objects from two-dimensional images. According to a first aspect, this specification describes a computer implemented method for creating a three-dimensional reconstruction from a two-dimensional image, the method comprising: receiving a two-dimensional image; identifying an object in the image to be reconstructed and identifying a type of said object; spat...