ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,514, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Hover Inc. (San Francisco).
"3-D reconstruction using augmented reality frameworks" was invented by Manish Upendran (San Francisco), William Castillo (Belmont, Calif.), Jena Dzitsiuk (San Francisco), Yunwen Zhou (Belmont, Calif.) and Matthew Thomas (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method are provided for scaling a 3-D representation of a building structure. The method includes obtaining images of the building structure, including non-camera anchors. The method also includes identifying reference poses for images based on the non-camera anchors. The method also includes obt...