US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 9 for "Configurable keypoint descriptor generation" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,909, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Configurable keypoint descriptor generation" was invented by Liran Fishel (Raanana, Israel), Assaf Metuki (Moshav Herut, Israel), Chuhan Min (San Jose, Calif.) and Wai Yu Trevor Tsang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to generating keypoint descriptors of the keypoints. An apparatus includes a pyramid image generator circuit and a keypoint descriptor generator circuit. The pyramid image generator circuit generates an image pyramid from an input image. The keypoint descriptor generator circuit determines intensity values of sam...