ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,093, issued on March 11.
"System and method for geo-referencing object on floor" was invented by Brian Earp (Merrimack, N.H.) and Jan-Phillipp Mohr (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system and a method for geo-referencing an object on a floor. The method comprises receiving a camera frame providing view of a section of the floor, receiving a detailed floor plan of the floor, selecting a first area from the section of the floor in which the object needs to be tracked and defining a plurality of reference points. Herein, at least one of the pluralities of reference points is close to a mid-point along one...