ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,944, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Plane extraction and localization" was invented by Stergios Roumeliotis (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Oleg Naroditsky (San Francisco), Connie Wu (Menlo Park, Calif.), Daniel C. Byrnes (Redwood City, Calif.) and Kuen-han Lin (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that localize a device based on detecting planes in depth data acquired by the device. For example, an example process may include detecting first plane data in first sensor data acquired by a sensor at a first vie...