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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 27, 2017
Applicant:

Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yoshiaki Sato, Tokyo, JP;

Noriyoshi Hiroi, Tokyo, JP;

Gaku Nakano, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/238 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/238 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); B64C 2201/123 (2013.01);
Abstract

In order to provide a technique for improving precision of location estimation using a video, a location estimation device includes: a video processing unit that executes video processing including location estimation of an imaging unit, based on a plurality of feature points extracted from a video captured by the imaging unit and composed of a plurality of frames; and an imaging control unit that determines, on the basis of video-related information acquired in the video processing on a first frame belonging to a first group out of the plurality of frames, an exposure condition of the imaging unit in a second frame belonging to a second group different from the first group out of the plurality of frames.


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