US Patent Issued to Snap on Nov. 25 for "Location mapping for large scale augmented-reality" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,080, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Location mapping for large scale augmented-reality" was invented by Richard McCormack (Princes Risborough, Great Britain) and Qi Pan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Augmented-Reality which performs operations that include: accessing a data object that comprises image data, location data, and orientation data; applying a transformation to the data object to produce a rectified data object; generating a point cloud based on the rectified data object; assigning the point cloud to a location based on at least the location data of the data object; detecti...