ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,106, issued on July 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Visual localization method and apparatus" was invented by Wensen Feng (Shenzhen, China), Huan Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Jun Cao (Shenzhen, China), Zhongwei Tang (Shanghai) and Jiangwei Li (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual localization method and apparatus are provided. The method includes obtaining a captured first image, determining a first pose based on the first image and an aerial model, determining whether a ground model corresponding to the first pose exists in an aerial-ground model, and when the ground model corresponding t...