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3. Glossary
USB bus the Universal Serial Bus is an interface that allows to easily connect different devices to a computer.
Theoretically, the USB bus 2.0 could transfer up to 50 MB/s but practically a high-performance desktop
computer can only reach approximately 40 MB/s; most of the notebook and embedded devices do not
even reach 40 MB/s;
Range image it is the three-dimensional equivalent of a photo: it stores the 3D coordinates, arranged within
an acquisition grid, of the captured data.
Mesh three-dimensional surface composed by a list of polygons; in case the polygons employed are triangles,
then it is called triangle mesh.