US Patent Issued to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY on Jan. 27 for "Method for predicting pedestrian crossing behavior for intersection" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,912, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Method for predicting pedestrian crossing behavior for intersection" was invented by Xu Li (Nanjing, China), Jinchao Hu (Nanjing, China) and Weiming Hu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting a pedestrian crossing behavior for an intersection includes the following steps: step 1: designing an immediate reward function; step 2: establishing a fully convolutional neural network-long-short term memory network (FCN-LSTM) model to predict a motion reward function; step 3: training the fully convolutional neural network-long-short...