ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,129, issued on June 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Camera localization" was invented by Sudipta Narayan Sinha (Kirkland, Wash.), Ondrej Miksik (Zurich), Joseph Michael Degol (Seattle) and Tien Do (Minneapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments there is a method for camera localization within a scene. An image of a scene captured by the camera is input to a machine learning model, which has been trained for the particular scene to detect a plurality of 3D scene landmarks. The 3D scene landmarks are pre-specified in a pre-built map of the scene. The machine learning model outp...