US Patent Issued to SNAP on March 25 for "Depth-from-stereo bending correction using visual inertial odometry features" (Austrian, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,588, issued on March 25, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Depth-from-stereo bending correction using visual inertial odometry features" was invented by Sagi Katz (Yokneam Ilit, Israel) and Matthias Kalkgruber (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for correcting a bending of a flexible device is described. In one aspect, the method includes accessing feature data of a first stereo frame that is generated by stereo optical sensors of the flexible device, the feature data generated based on a visual-inertial odometry (VIO) system of the flexible device, accessing depth map data of the first stereo frame, the...