ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,594, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Pose estimation method and apparatus" was invented by Slobodan Ilic (Munich), Roman Kaskman (Munich), Ivan Shugurov (Munich) and Sergey Zakharov (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a computer implemented pose estimation method for providing poses of objects of interest in a scene. The scene comprises a visual representation of the objects of interest in an environment. The method comprising: conducting for each one of the objects of interest a pose estimation; determining edge data of the object of interest from t...