ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,273, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for estimating user pose in three-dimensional space" was invented by Nak Ju Doh (Seoul, South Korea) and Joohyung Kim (Goyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for estimating a user pose in a three-dimensional space. The apparatus includes a relative pose identification unit configured to identify estimated relative pose information between a plurality of images acquired in a chronological order in a real space; and a user pose estimating unit configur...