ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,119, issued on April 8, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).
"Adaptive image classification" was invented by Victor Wang (San Diego), Yumin Shen (Fremont, Calif.) and Zayra Lobo (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for image classification through a two-stage classifier. Raw image data of an image gathered by a sensor associated with an AV during operation of the AV is accessed. A first stage of a two-stage classifier is applied. The first stage is trained by first raw AV data captured at varying values of one or ...