US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 26 for "Single read of keypoint descriptors of image from system memory for efficient header matching" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,419, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Single read of keypoint descriptors of image from system memory for efficient header matching" was invented by Assaf Metuki (Moshav Herut, Israel), Danny Gal (Hod-Hasharon, Israel) and Liran Fishel (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to sequentially loading keypoint descriptors of a previous image and comparing them with a plurality of keypoint descriptors of a current image. The keypoint descriptors of the previous image are stored and accessed from a system memory while the keypoint descriptors of the cu...