ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,889, issued on April 21, was assigned to P2 Holding Oy (Jyvaskyla, Finland).
"Augmented virtual tour" was invented by Mika Valkonen (Aanekoski, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implement method includes obtaining a previously captured virtual tour data of a location, receiving real-time image data of a target object located within a field of view area of a camera, which target object is located in the same location wherein the virtual tour data was captured, analysing the real-time image data for detecting a deviation, and overlaying the real-time image data on an area of a virtual tour view for forming a mixed imag...