ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,903, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Incremental 2D-to-3D pose lifting for fast and accurate human pose estimation" was invented by Anbang Yao (Beijing), Yangyuxuan Kang (Beijing), Shandong Wang (Beijing), Ming Lu (Beijing), Yurong Chen (Beijing), Wenjian Shao (Shanghai), Yikai Wang (Beijing), Haojun Xu (Beijing), Chao Yu (Beijing) and Chong Wong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques related to 3D pose estimation from a 2D input image are discussed. Such techniques include incrementally adjusting an initial 3D pose generated by applying a lifting network to a detected 2D pose in the...