ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,667, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Joint visual object detection and object mapping to a 3D model" was invented by Volodya Grancharov (Solna, Sweden), Sigurdur Sverrisson (Kungsangen, Sweden), Alfredo Fanghella (Stockholm) and Manish Sonal (Sollentuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided mechanisms for joint visual object detection and object mapping to a 3D model. A method is performed by an image processing device. The method includes obtaining a first sequence of digital images of a scene as captured by a first image capturing unit, and obtaining a secon...