ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,575, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Guangdong, China).
"Scale-aware monocular localization and mapping" was invented by Benjamin Busam (Munich) and Gregory Slabaugh (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an image processing device comprising a processor configured to estimate the scale of image features by the steps of: processing multiple images of a scene by means of a first trained model to identify features in the images and to estimate the depths of those features in the images; processing the multiple images by a second trained model to estimate a scaling for the images; and est...