US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on April 14 for "Generating computer augmented maps from physical maps" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,948, issued on April 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Generating computer augmented maps from physical maps" was invented by Xiaoping Li (Karlskrona, Sweden), Tommy Arngren (Sodra Sunderbyn, Sweden) and Andreas Kristensson (Sodra Sandby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by a computing device obtains a digital image of a physical map, identifies features in the digital image, and obtains map augmentation information based on the identified features. The method then generates an augmented map based on the map augmentation information, and provides the augmented map for display. Rel...