US Patent Issued to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute on July 22 for "Apparatus and method for aligning virtual objects in augmented reality viewing environment" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,647, issued on July 22, was assigned to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Apparatus and method for aligning virtual objects in augmented reality viewing environment" was invented by Yat Cheung Ngai (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Yin Yee Chan (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of aligning and overlaying an AR virtual object in an electronic 3D viewing environment, comprising: receiving a motion comprising: a surrounding real-world scene image containing the real-world object captured by a camera of the electronic 3D viewing environment, and a camera rea...