US Patent Issued to HERE Global on Nov. 4 for "Method, apparatus, and system for pole extraction from optical imagery" (Colorado, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,557, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and system for pole extraction from optical imagery" was invented by Robert Ledner (Boulder, Colo.), Xiaoying Jin (Boulder, Colo.), Holly Russell (Lafayette, Colo.) and Joseph Tankovich (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for pole extraction from optical imagery. The approach involves, for instance, processing a plurality of images using a machine learning model to generate a plurality of redundant observations of a pole-like object and/or their semantic keypoints respectively depicted in the plurality of i...