ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,563, issued on March 18, was assigned to LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL Inc. (Boca Raton, Fla.).
"Mapping interior environments based on multiple images" was invented by Victor Palmer (Denver).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for creating a two-dimensional orthographic map that models an environment using images captured with a camera and an augmented reality (AR) engine. The interior has at least one object with one or more planes that are parallel to each other. A method can include annotating the at least one image with a plurality of horizontal lines or vertical lines, each horizontal line or vertical line corresp...