ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,066, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KANDAO TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Model generation method and apparatus based on multi-view panoramic image" was invented by Dan Chen (Shenzhen, China), Yuyao Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhigang Tan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a model generation method based on a multi-view panoramic image, including: calculating an image rectification rotation matrix of source images and a reference image; extracting a reference image feature of the reference image and source image features of the source images; performing a fusion operation on rectified...