US Patent Issued to Niantic on March 4 for "Repeatability predictions of interest points" (British, American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,309, issued on March 4, was assigned to Niantic Inc. (San Francisco).

"Repeatability predictions of interest points" was invented by Dung Anh Doan (Prospect, Australia), Daniyar Turmukhambetov (London) and Soohyun Bae (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes approaches for evaluating interest points for localization uses based on a repeatability of the detection of the interest point in images capturing a scene that includes the interest point. The repeatability of interest points is determined by using a trained repeatability model. The repeatability model is trained by analyzing a time seri...