US Patent Issued to Quintar on March 24 for "3D reference point detection for survey for venue model construction" (Washington, Tennessee, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,305, issued on March 24, was assigned to Quintar Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"3D reference point detection for survey for venue model construction" was invented by Richard Paris (Nashville, Tenn.), Timothy P. Heidmann (Los Altos, Calif.) and Wayne O. Cochran (Ridgefield, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Augmented reality systems provide graphics over views from a mobile device for both in-venue and remote viewing of a sporting or other event. A server system can provide a transformation between the coordinate system of a mobile device (smart phone, tablet computer, head mounted display) and a real world coordinate system. Reques...