ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,950, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for pedestrian road crossing intention detection" was invented by Roy Uziel (Herzliya, Israel), Oded Bialer (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Dan Levi (Ganei Tikvah, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for classifying a road crossing intention of a pedestrian includes a processor including a pretrained image encoder generating an image embedding based upon an input image. The system further includes a remote server receiving the image embedding. The remote server device further references a plurality of pretrained image and ...