US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 23 for "Method, apparatus, and program for matching point cloud data" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,946, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method, apparatus, and program for matching point cloud data" was invented by Nobuyuki Matsuno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for matching point cloud data according to an embodiment includes a generation unit configured to generate an input model and an input model group including a plurality of the input models, the input model being obtained by reducing a data amount of the point cloud data, an extraction unit configured to extract some of the input models from the input model group according to shape information of the input models...