ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,900, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Periodic parameter estimation for visual-inertial tracking systems" was invented by Georg Halmetschlager-Funek (Vienna), Matthias Kalkgruber (Vienna), Daniel Wolf (Modling, Austria) and Jakob Zillner (Absdorf, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating a visual-inertial tracking system is described. A device operates the visual-inertial tracking system without receiving a tracking request from a virtual object display application. In response to operating the visual-inertial tracking system, the device accesses sensor data from sensors at ...