US Patent Issued to Snap on June 30 for "Object scale utilizing away-facing images" (Wisconsin, Washington, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,649, issued on June 30, was assigned to Snap Inc..

"Object scale utilizing away-facing images" was invented by Gurunandan Krishnan Gorumkonda (Kirkland, Wash.), Rui Yu (State College, Pa.), Yicheng Wu (Boston), Jian Wang (Pittsburgh) and Sizhuo Ma (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, mobile devices, and non-transitory computer-readable mediums for determining a scale of an object with a mobile device. The mobile device includes at least one object-facing camera (e.g., a monocular camera) and an away-facing stereo camera system. Information captured using the away-facing stereo camera system is used to estim...