ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,996, issued on March 31, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Visual localization method and apparatus" was invented by Wensen Feng (Shenzhen, China), Huan Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Jun Cao (Shenzhen, China), Jiange Ge (Shenzhen, China), Zhongwei Tang (Shanghai) and Jiangwei Li (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual localization method includes obtaining an image captured by a terminal device; obtaining two-dimensional line feature information of the image that includes at least one of information about a boundary between a building and a non-building or information about a boundary between a no...