US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on June 9 for "Visual localization method, terminal, and server" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,373, issued on June 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Visual localization method, terminal, and server" was invented by Ran Ding (Beijing), Yan Zhou (Shenzhen, China) and Yongliang Wang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides example visual localization methods and devices. One method includes that a terminal device obtains an image of a building. The terminal device generates a descriptor based on the image. The descriptor includes information about a horizontal viewing angle between a first vertical feature line and a second vertical feature line in the image. The first ...