US Patent Issued to Inter IKEA Systems on April 22 for "Augmenting a first image with a second image" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,984, issued on April 22, was assigned to Inter IKEA Systems B.V. (Ln Delft, Netherlands).

"Augmenting a first image with a second image" was invented by Jonas Gustavsson (Lomma, Sweden) and Camila Dorin (Almhult, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for augmenting a first image with image data from a second image, the method comprising: receiving (S02) the first image depicting a first scene; capturing (S04) the second image depicting a second scene using an image capturing device; identifying (S06) an object in the second image; receiving (S08) a 3D model from a database, the database comprising a plura...