ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,503, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for camera localization with planar surfaces" was invented by Gabriel Pragier (Herzliya, Israel), Matan Karklinsky (Zur Hadassa, Israel), Eli Alshan (Kfar-Saba, Israel), Lior Fritz (Tel Aviv, Israel), Avi Avraham Ben-Cohen (Holon, Israel) and Ianir Ideses (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for localizing a camera. An example method includes generating first image data comprising a first image plane representing the planar scene from a first point-of-view. The example includes generating seco...