US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on Sept. 2 for "Discriminative 3D shape modeling for few-shot instance segmentation" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,374, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc..

"Discriminative 3D shape modeling for few-shot instance segmentation" was invented by Anoop Cherian (Belmont, Mass.), Tim Marks (Newton, Mass.) and Alan Sullivan (Middleton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging controller is provided for segmenting instances from depth images including objects to be manipulated by a robot. The imaging controller includes an input interface configured to receive a depth image that includes objects, a memory configured to store instructions and a neural network trained to segment instances from the object...