ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,293, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Detection device, label assignment method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Akira Tsuji (Tokyo), Junichi Abe (Tokyo) and Taisuke Tanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device (20) according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit (11) that acquires point cloud data indicating a distance to an object and luminance information obtained from reflected light of a beam emitted when the point cloud data is measured, an edge detection unit (12) that performs edge detection based on the luminance information, a classificat...