ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,733, issued on April 15, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Calibration methods and systems for an under-calibrated camera capturing a scene" was invented by Solmaz Hajmohammadi (San Francisco), Richard A. Paris (Nashville, Tenn.), Daniel M. Michler (Lexington, Ky.) and Jie Yu (Natick, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative camera calibration system may identify a common feature present within a scene and visible in each of 1) a first image of the scene captured by a first camera from a first pose represented by a first set of calibration parameters, and 2) a second image of the sce...