ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,177, issued on July 1, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and device for 3D object detection" was invented by Yazhao Li (Tianjin, China) and Dayu Jia (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for 3D object detection. The method comprises the steps of: generating one or more fused images(201) based on a pair of images(530), the pair of images (530) including a left view image(101,710a) and a right view image(102,710b); extracting one or more fused features from the fused images(201) by a single backbone network(210) of a share network with feature unmixing (SNFU,540); unmixing the f...