ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,320, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Digimarc Corp. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Image-based pose determination" was invented by Geoffrey B. Rhoads (West Linn, Ore.), Tony F. Rodriguez (Portland, Ore.), Ravi K. Sharma (Portland, Ore.), Tomas Filler (Beaverton, Ore.) and Vahid Sedighianaraki (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steganographic digital watermark signal is decoded from host imagery without requiring a domain transformation for signal synchronization, thereby speeding and simplifying the decoding operation. In time-limited applications, such as in supermarket point-of-sale scanners that attempt watermark decode oper...