US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 24 for "Method and device for three-dimensional object scanning with invisible markers" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,232, issued on June 24, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC.

"Method and device for three-dimensional object scanning with invisible markers" was invented by Xinyuan Li (South Setauket, N.Y.), Yu Ji (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yanchen Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaochen Hu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Changxi Zheng (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional (3D) object scanning method includes: controlling, when an invisible light source is off, a first camera device to capture a first image of the target object; and controlling, when the invisible light source is on, a second camera device to capture second images of th...