ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,645, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Open Space Labs Inc. (San Francisco).
"Automated spatial indexing of images based on floorplan features" was invented by Michael Ben Fleischman (Los Angeles), Philip DeCamp (Boulder, Colo.), Jeevan Kalanithi (San Francisco) and Thomas Friel Allen (El Cerrito, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spatial indexing system receives a sequence of images depicting an environment, such as a floor of a construction site, and performs a spatial indexing process to automatically identify the spatial locations at which each of the images were captured. The spatial indexing system also generates an immers...