US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Distance determination from image data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,953, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Distance determination from image data" was invented by Zafar Iqbal (Hayward, Calif.), Hitha Revalla (San Jose, Calif.), Apurbaa Mallik (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gurjeet Singh (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Vijay Nagasamy (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive an image frame from a camera, generate a feature map from the image frame, generate a depth map from the feature map, classify an object in the image frame based on the...