US Patent Issued to Hover on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for estimating feature locations based on image analysis and homography" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,209, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Hover Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for estimating feature locations based on image analysis and homography" was invented by Atulya Shree (San Francisco), Kai Jia (San Francisco), Zhiyao Xiong (San Francisco), Siu Fai Chow (San Francisco), Raymond Phan (San Francisco), Panfeng Li (San Francisco) and Domenico Curro (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for identifying correspondences between images to generate a fundamental matrix for the camera positions related to the images. The resultant fundamental matrix enables epipolar geometry to correlate c...