ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,072, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Dynamic object detection using posture data" was invented by Boshen Niu (San Mateo, Calif.) and Shreekant Gayaka (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a system for improving dynamic object detection by including posture data. For example, the system may build an occupancy map representing objects present in an environment while tracking dynamic objects that should not be included in the occupancy map (e.g., people, pets, or other mobile objects). The system may classify a user as a dynamic object based on a posture indicated by...