US Patent Issued to Tencent America on May 27 for "Three-dimensional object scanning device and method" (Louisiana, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,398, issued on May 27, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional object scanning device and method" was invented by Yu Ji (Baton Rouge, La.), Changxi Zheng (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Xinyuan Li (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional (3D) object scanner includes: an object platform configured to host a target object; a projector device configured to project a first light pattern on to the target object; an LED screen that surrounds the object platform and configured to emit a second light pattern; an imaging device configured to obtain a plurality of images of the target ob...