ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,095, issued on July 8, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Visual-inertial tracking using rolling shutter cameras" was invented by Matthias Kalkgruber (Vienna), Erick Mendez Mendez (Vienna), Daniel Wagner (Vienna), Daniel Wolf (Modling, Austria) and Kai Zhou (Wr Neudorf, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Visual-inertial tracking of an eyewear device using a rolling shutter camera(s). The device includes a position determining system. Visual-inertial tracking is implemented by sensing motion of the device. An initial pose is obtained for a rolling shutter camera and an image of an environment is captured. The image ...