US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Method and apparatus for retrieving three-dimensional (3D) map" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,207, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for retrieving three-dimensional (3D) map" was invented by Xiaoran Cao (Hangzhou, China), Pei Wang (Beijing) and Kangying Cai (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus are disclosed for retrieving a 3D map by obtaining binary data of a plurality of 3D map descriptors, obtaining binary data of a retrieval descriptor, and performing retrieval in the binary data of the plurality of 3D map descriptors based on binary data of the retrieval descriptor, to obtain at least one target 3D map descriptor. The plu...