US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Plane detection and identification for city-scale localization" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,909, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Plane detection and identification for city-scale localization" was invented by Henry Howard-Jenkins (London) and Vasileios Balntas (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes accessing an image of one or more target buildings captured by a device; detecting target building planes of the one or more target buildings in the image using a machine learning program; for each of the target building planes: generating a target embedding and target feature points for the target building plane; querying a three-dimen...