US Patent Issued to NEC on Nov. 11 for "Positioning device, estimation method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,167, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Positioning device, estimation method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Natsuki Kai (Tokyo), Takahiro Shiroshima (Tokyo), Hideo Saito (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masahiro Yamaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning device includes an acquisition unit that acquires an environmental map of a target area being generated by using an image processing technique for estimating a three-dimensional shape of a target included in a two-dimensional image, and a plurality of captured images being used for generating the environmental map,...