US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Dec. 23 for "Simultaneous location and mapping (SLAM) using dual event cameras" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,286, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Simultaneous location and mapping (SLAM) using dual event cameras" was invented by Sebastien Derhy (Tel Aviv, Israel), Lior Zamir (Ramat Hasharon, Israel) and Nathan Henri Levy (Givatayim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) employs dual event-based cameras. Event streams from the cameras are processed by an image processing system to stereoscopically detect surface points in an environment, dynamically compute pose of a camera as it moves, and concurrently update a map of the envi...