US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 22 for "Visual inertial odometry with machine learning depth" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,590, issued on July 22, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Visual inertial odometry with machine learning depth" was invented by Yunwen Zhou (Belmont, Calif.), Ryan Christopher DuToit (Redwood City, Calif.), Abhishek Kar (Fremont, Calif.), Konstantine Nicholas John Tsotsos (Corte Madera, Calif.), Eric Turner (Somerville, Mass.) and Chao Guo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method including receiving a depth map estimated using data based on image and data received from a movement sensor as input, generating an alignment parameter based on the depth map, adding the alignment parameter t...