ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,815, issued on March 31, was assigned to SOCIONEXT INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"VSLAM with image buffer and extraction" was invented by Kazuyuki Ohhashi (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a buffer and a VSLAM processor. The buffer buffers image data of surroundings of a moving body obtained by an imaging unit of the moving body, and transmits extracted image data extracted based on extracted image determination information from among the buffered image data. The VSLAM processor executes a VSLAM process by using the extracted image data."
The patent was ...