US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on July 1 for "High-confidence optical head pose correspondence mapping with multiple lower-density markers for high-integrity headtracking on a headworn display (HWD)" (Virginia, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,139, issued on July 1, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"High-confidence optical head pose correspondence mapping with multiple lower-density markers for high-integrity headtracking on a headworn display (HWD)" was invented by Christopher M. Boggs (Gainesville, Va.), William T. Kirchner (Ashburn, Va.), Gavin P. Haentjens (Arlington, Va.), Kurt I. Jaeger (Catlett, Va.) and Brandon E. Wilson (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for high integrity head pose estimation receives a 2D image including medium-density fiducials and low-density fiducials. The system then detects the mediu...