ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,614, issued on June 30, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"System and method of simultaneous localisation and mapping" was invented by David Erwan Damien Uberti (London), Mark Jacobus Breugelmans (London), Calum Armstrong (London) and Maurizio Cerrato (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of environment mapping includes the steps of receiving a plurality of images from respective different viewpoints; using a simultaneous localisation and mapping 'SLAM' process, detect feature points in the plurality of images; classifying one or more objects within the plurality of images as being objects of inte...