ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,073, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cognata Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Object labeling in images using dense depth maps" was invented by Ilan Tsafrir (Shoham, Israel), Guy Tsafrir (Zikhron-Yaakov, Israel), Ehud Spiegel (Petach-Tikva, Israel) and Dan Atsmon (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for annotating digital images for training a machine learning model, comprising: generating, from digital images and a plurality of dense depth maps, each associated with one of the digital images, an aligned three-dimensional stacked scene representation of a scene, where the digital images are captured by ...