US Patent Issued to Distance Technologies on June 10 for "Tracking accuracy with head pose prediction" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,969, issued on June 10, was assigned to Distance Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Tracking accuracy with head pose prediction" was invented by Mikko Strandborg (Hangonkyla, Finland), Urho Konttori (Helsinki) and Thomas Carlsson (Vantaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tracking means is utilised to track a position and an orientation of a head of user(s) sitting inside a vehicle. A vehicular acceleration signal is determined for a first time period, based on at least one of: an acceleration, an orientation of the vehicle sensed by sensor(s) during the first time period. Transformation(s) is/are applied to the vehicular acceleration...