ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,067, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Visual odometry for mixed reality devices" was invented by Evan Gregory Levine (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for identifying a 3D feature represented in images in a buffer are disclosed. The images comprise a first and second image, and the images provide data that is usable to determine a depth for the 3D feature. A 2D feature point that is an observation of the 3D feature is identified. A pseudo measurement is computed for the 2D feature point. This measurement includes a depth and an uncertainty value. A first joint u...