Abstract
From Washington, D.C., NewsRx journalists report that a patent application by the inventors Koppel, Daniel Esteban (San Jose, CA, US); Steinbruecker, Frank Thomas (Mountain View, CA, US); Swaminathan, Ashwin (Dublin, CA, US); Zhou, Lipu (Sunnyvale, CA, US), filed on July 17, 2023, was made available online on January 25, 2024. The patent's assignee is Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Florida, United States). News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Localization is performed in some machine vision systems to relate the location of a device, equipped with a camera to capture images of a 3D environment, to locations in a map of the 3D environment. A new image captured by the device may be matched to a portion of the map. A spatial transformation between the new image of the matching portion of the map may indicate the "pose" of the device with respect to the map.