The company’s focus on spatial intelligence has intensified significantly, with 100 of the 130 patents filed this year (77%) related to this field. This marks a substantial increase from 2017, when spatial intelligence patents represented only 27% of Naver Labs’ total patent portfolio.
The growth in spatial intelligence patent filings shows steady expansion, with 29 patents in 2018, rising to 33 in 2019, 62 in 2020, reaching a peak of 117 in 2021, followed by 71 in 2022, and 91 in 2023.
Notable patents include control methods for indoor autonomous robots (2016), 3D map generation using aerial photography (2019), and robot-friendly building systems (2021). Many of these technologies have been successfully implemented in Naver’s second headquarters building, 1784.