US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Oct. 14 for "Augmented reality using projector-camera enabled devices" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. RE50,637, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Augmented reality using projector-camera enabled devices" was invented by Aditi Majumder (Irvine, Calif.) and Behzad Sajadi (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality scene may be registered onto an arbitrary surface. A camera may capture an image of the arbitrary surface. The camera may analyze the surface geometry of the arbitrary surface. In some embodiments, a processing computing device may analyze data captured by the camera and an adjacent camera to reconstruct the surface geometry of the arbitrary surface. ...