US Patent Issued to 3i on May 27 for "Method and apparatus for calculating actual distance between coordinates in image" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,404, issued on May 27, was assigned to 3i Inc. (Daegu, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for calculating actual distance between coordinates in image" was invented by Ken Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Ji Wuck Jung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Kevin Nathanael Santoso (Seoul, South Korea) and Byung Ju Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to calculate an actual distance between coordinates in an image, a regular image for an original image may be generated based on an intrinsic parameter of a camera and pose information of the camera, based on first coordinates in the regular image that are received, first world ...