US Patent Issued to NEC on July 15 for "Determination, for each point in mapping point cloud, of one of the labels assigned to the point based on voting results of the labels" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,562, issued on July 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Determination, for each point in mapping point cloud, of one of the labels assigned to the point based on voting results of the labels" was invented by Takashi Shibata (Tokyo) and Kosuke Yoshimi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes: a three-dimensional point cloud segmentation unit for segmenting a three-dimensional point cloud of an object using clustering parameters so that the smaller the distance between points in the three-dimensional point cloud is, the more likely the points are to be clustered into the same cluster; a cluster m...