US Patent Issued to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE on May 20 for "Multi-modal image alignment method and system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,690, issued on May 20, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Multi-modal image alignment method and system" was invented by Jay Huang (Tainan, Taiwan), Hian-Kun Tenn (Tainan, Taiwan), Wen-Hung Ting (Tainan, Taiwan) and Chia-Chang Li (Pingtung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-modal image alignment method includes obtaining first points corresponding to a center vertex of a calibration object and second point groups corresponding to side vertices of the calibration object from two-dimensional images, obtaining third points corresponding to the center vertex from three-dimensional ima...