US Patent Issued to Niantic on April 15 for "Cloud assisted generation of local map data using novel viewpoints" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,653, issued on April 15, was assigned to Niantic Inc. (San Francisco).

"Cloud assisted generation of local map data using novel viewpoints" was invented by Ross Edward Finman (Redwood City, Calif.) and Si ying Diana Hu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality system generates computer-mediated reality on a client device. The client device has sensors including a camera configured to capture image data of an environment and a location sensor to capture location data describing a geolocation of the client device. The client device creates a three-dimensional (3-D) map with the image data and the locatio...