US Patent Issued to Erbe Vision on April 14 for "Endoscopic camera arrangement and method for camera alignment error correction" (German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,288, issued on April 14, was assigned to Erbe Vision GmbH (Wurmlingen, Germany).

"Endoscopic camera arrangement and method for camera alignment error correction" was invented by Shirish Joshi (Wurmlingen, Germany), Faisal Kalim (Reutlingen, Germany) and Subhamoy Mandal (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Augmented reality applications require precise camera calibration to reduce the overall target registration errors. The camera calibration determines the mathematical model of the camera in order to determine how the physical world space is mapped to the camera image space and thus is highly dependent on the optics of the...