US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 8 for "Inverting neural radiance fields for pose estimation" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,300, issued on July 8, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Inverting neural radiance fields for pose estimation" was invented by Tsung-Yi Lin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Peter Raymond Florence (San Francisco), Yen-Chen Lin (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jonathan Tilton Barron (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods that invert a trained NeRF model, which stores the structure of a scene or object, to estimate the 6D pose from an image taken with a novel view. 6D pose estimation has a wide range of applications, including visual localization and object pose estimation for robot manipulation." ...