US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Aug. 5 for "System and method for future forecasting using action priors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,863, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"System and method for future forecasting using action priors" was invented by Srikanth Malla (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chiho Choi (San Jose, Calif.) and Behzad Dariush (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for future forecasting using action priors that include receiving image data associated with a surrounding environment of an ego vehicle and dynamic data associated with dynamic operation of the ego vehicle. The system and method also include analyzing the image data to classify dynamic objects as agents and to detect and annotate action...