US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 21 for "Object detection with instance detection and general scene understanding" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,893, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Object detection with instance detection and general scene understanding" was invented by Aitor Aldoma Buchaca (Bavaria-Bayern, Germany), Andreas N. Moeller (Bayern, Germany) and Michael Kuhn (Bayern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determine a particular object instance in CGR environments. In some implementations, an object type of an object depicted in an image of a physical environment is identified. Then, a particular instance is determined based on the object type an...