ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,171, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).
"Systems and methods for annotating 3D data" was invented by Meng Zheng (Cambridge, Mass.), Srikrishna Karanam (Bangalore, India), Ziyan Wu (Lexington, Mass.), Arun Innanje (Lexington, Mass.) and Terrence Chen (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with automatically annotating a 3D image dataset. The 3D automatic annotation may be accomplished based on a 2D annotation provided by an annotator and by propagating the 2D annotation through multiple images of ...