ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,461, issued on May 6, was assigned to STREEM LLC (Portland, Ore.).
"Edge enhancement with texture optimization" was invented by Nikilesh Urella (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mesh model of a 3D space is provided with improved accuracy by refining the locations of edges of objects in the space. The mesh model includes vertices which define surfaces of triangles. Triangles are identified which have two vertices in one plane and another, outlier vertex in another, adjacent plane. A line is fitted to the outlier vertices to define an edge of an object, and the outlier vertices are moved to the line, referred to as a mes...