ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,685, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Image feature matching method, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Wan-Jhen Lee (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chin-Pin Kuo (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image feature matching method is provided by the present disclosure. The method includes determining a first weak texture area of a first image and a second weak texture area of a second image based on an edge detection algorithm. First feature points of the first weak texture area and second feature points of the second weak texture area are extracte...