ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,468, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NavVis GmbH (Munich).
"Visual localization" was invented by Eckehard Steinbach (Olching, Germany), Robert Huitl (Baldham, Germany), Georg Schroth (Munich) and Sebastian Hilsenbeck (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment of the invention there is provided a method of visual localization, comprising: generating a plurality of virtual views, wherein each of the virtual views is associated with a location; obtaining a query image; determining the location where the query image was obtained on the basis of a comparison of the query image with said virtual views."
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