US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Aug. 5 for "Efficient vision-aided inertial navigation using a rolling-shutter camera with inaccurate timestamps" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,215, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Efficient vision-aided inertial navigation using a rolling-shutter camera with inaccurate timestamps" was invented by Stergios I. Roumeliotis (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Chao Guo (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vision-aided inertial navigation techniques are described. In one example, a vision-aided inertial navigation system (VINS) comprises an image source to produce image data at a first set of time instances along a trajectory within a three-dimensional (3D) environment, wherein the image data captures features within ...