US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Sept. 30 for "Mapping apparatus, tracker, mapping method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,357, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Mapping apparatus, tracker, mapping method, and program" was invented by Yoshinori Ohashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a mapping apparatus, a tracker, a mapping method, and a program that can accurately map a given geographic position on an environmental map. An environmental map data storing unit (80) stores environmental map data indicating an environmental map in which a position expressed by a Euclidean coordinate system is associated with a position expressed by a geographic coordinate system. A SLAM processing executing...