US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Dec. 9 for "Aligned time surfaces via dense optical flows for event-based object detection, identification and tracking" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,966, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Aligned time surfaces via dense optical flows for event-based object detection, identification and tracking" was invented by Ganesh Sundaramoorthi (Belmont, Mass.) and Kin Gwn Lore (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for producing aligned and aggregated aligned time surfaces. An exemplary method includes: receiving camera event data from a first location; computing, using the camera event data, a plurality of unaligned time surfaces; determining a plurality of optical flows corresponding to the unaligned time surfaces; de...