ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,184, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Bounding box estimation and object detection" was invented by Young-Ki Baik (Namyangju-si, South Korea), Hyun-Mook Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Duck Hoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jeong-Kyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Chaeseong Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hee-Seok Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for estimating a 3D bounding box (3DBB) from a 2D bounding box (2DBB). Conventional techniques to estimate 3DBB from 2DBB rely upon classifying target vehicles within the 2DBB. When the target vehicle is misclassified, the pr...