US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on March 24 for "Method, system, and computer program for recognizing position and attitude of object imaged by camera" (Canadian, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,242, issued on March 24, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Method, system, and computer program for recognizing position and attitude of object imaged by camera" was invented by Masaki Hayashi (Matsumoto, Japan), Jian Yao (Markham, Canada), Dibyendu Mukherjee (Hamilton, Canada) and Andrei Mark Rotenstein (Thornhill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of the present disclosure includes (a) extracting distinctive features used for respectively distinguishing a plurality of similar attitudes from which images similar to one another are obtained using a simulation model of an object, (b) capturing an object image o...