ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,305, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Object detection with images" was invented by Cedric Picron (Meise, Belgium), Tinne Tuytelaars (Korbeek-Lo, Belgium), Punarjay Chakravarty (Campbell, Calif.) and Shubham Shrivastava (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer is programmed to receive image data from a sensor; generate a feature pyramid from the image data, the feature pyramid including a plurality of features; apply a plurality of preliminary bounding boxes to the features to generate a plurality of preliminarily bounded features, each preliminarily bounded fea...