US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies, Australian National University on Nov. 3 for "Camera pose relative to overhead image" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,423, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.) and Australian National University (Acton, Australia).

"Camera pose relative to overhead image" was invented by Yujiao Shi (Canberra, Australia), Yanhao Zhang (Aranda, Australia), Hongdong Li (Lyneham, Australia), Akhil Perincherry (Dearborn, Mich.) and Ankit Girish Vora (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to generate an overhead feature map from an overhead image of a geographic area; generate an observed ground-view feature map...