US Patent Issued to Open Space Labs on July 7 for "Image search in walkthrough videos" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,524, issued on July 7, was assigned to Open Space Labs Inc. (San Francisco).

"Image search in walkthrough videos" was invented by Michael Ben Fleischman (San Francisco), Gabriel Hein (Albany, Calif.), Thomas Friel Allen (El Ceritto, Calif.) and Philip DeCamp (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spatial indexing system receives a set of walkthrough videos of an environment taken over a period of time and receives an image search query that includes an image of an object. The spatial indexing system searches the set of walkthrough videos for instances of the object. The spatial indexing system presents search results in a use...