ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,593, issued on May 6, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Object detection method, object detection device, terminal device, and medium" was invented by Yi Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection method is provided. The method includes: acquiring a scene image of a scene; acquiring a three-dimensional point cloud corresponding to the scene; segmenting the scene image into a plurality of sub-regions; merging the plurality of sub-regions according to the three-dimensional point cloud to generate a plurality of region proposals; and performing object de...