ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,607, issued on July 21, was assigned to Naver Corp. (South Korea).

"System and method for model-free, one-shot object pose estimation via coordinate regression" was invented by Jerome Revaud (Meylan, France), Romain Bregier (Meylan, France), Yohann Cabon (Meylan, France), Philippe Weinzaepfel (Meylan, France) and JongMin Lee (Meylan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method and system using an object-agnostic model for predicting a pose of an object in an image receives a query image having a target object therein; receives a set of reference images of the target object from different viewpoints; encodes, u...