US Patent Issued to Snap on March 17 for "Intrinsic parameters estimation in visual tracking systems" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,690, issued on March 17, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Intrinsic parameters estimation in visual tracking systems" was invented by Clemens Birklbauer (Vienna), Georg Halmetschlager-Funek (Vienna), Matthias Kalkgruber (Vienna) and Kai Zhou (Wiener Neudorf, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adjusting camera intrinsic parameters of a multi-camera visual tracking device is described. In one aspect, a method for calibrating the multi-camera visual tracking system includes disabling a first camera of the multi-camera visual tracking system while a second camera of the multi-camera visual tracking sys...