US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on April 21 for "Minimal state augmentation algorithm for stereo-vision-based navigation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,465, issued on April 21, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Minimal state augmentation algorithm for stereo-vision-based navigation" was invented by Jeff H. Delaune (Pasadena, Calif.), Roland Brockers (Pasadena, Calif.), Robert A. Hewitt (Tujunga, Calif.), David S. Bayard (Glendale, Calif.) and Alejandro M. San Martin (San Gabriel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to perform vision based navigation on a moving vehicle. An image processor receives reference images with associated depth information as base frames or search frames. 2D features are detected in base frames and tracked in...