ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,823, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"System for determining position both indoor and outdoor" was invented by Peter Meier (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Christian Lipski (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium related to determining the position of a device, for example determining the pose of a camera. Varying embodiments discuss the use of sensors and captured images to construct an environment property map, which provides reference information in the form of environment properties that are associated with positions, such as camera poses. Embodi...