ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,204, issued on March 24, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Detecting optical discrepancies in captured images" was invented by Ryan Kennedy (San Francisco), Peter Henry (San Francisco) and Abraham Bachrach (Emerald Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are described for detecting optical discrepancies associated with image capture analyzing pixels in multiple images corresponding to common points of reference in a physical environment. In an embodiment, photometric error values are averaged over time to compute the mean error at each pixel. Once the estimate of the mean error has a sufficient numbe...