US Patent Issued to Magic Leap on June 9 for "Systems and methods for performing self-improving visual odometry" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,598, issued on June 9, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for performing self-improving visual odometry" was invented by Daniel DeTone (San Francisco), Tomasz Jan Malisiewicz (Mountain View, Calif.) and Andrew Rabinovich (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example method of training a neural network for performing visual odometry, the neural network receives a plurality of images of an environment, determines, for each image, a respective set of interest points and a respective descriptor, and determines a correspondence between the plurality of images. Determining the corresponden...