ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,322, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"System and methods of vehicle pose estimation" was invented by Alireza Ahrabian (London) and Ioannis Souflas (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention refers to vehicle (10) comprising an inertial measurement unit (26) configured to output inertial related data, a wheel odometry unit (28) configured to output position related data, an electromagnetic sensor unit (20) configured to output first image data and second image data that is previous image data of the first image data, and a visual odometry part (31) configured to receive the inert...