US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 11 for "Map-aided inertial odometry with neural network for augmented reality devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,625, issued on March 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Map-aided inertial odometry with neural network for augmented reality devices" was invented by Qiyue Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Luca Ballan (San Jose, Calif.), Hongsheng Yu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Fengtao Fan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mahesh Ramachandran (Dublin, Calif.) and Chao Guo (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques of providing continual augmented reality navigation include combining first and second 6DoF poses from, respectively, a localization from a map in a vicinity of a location to an image and from predicted 6DoF poses based on...