US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Dec. 23 for "Manhattan layout estimation using geometric and semantic information" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,618, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Manhattan layout estimation using geometric and semantic information" was invented by Haichao Zhu (Los Angeles), Bing Jian (Cupertino, Calif.), Weiwei Feng (Mountain View, Calif.), Lu He (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kelin Liu (Thornhill, Canada) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of two-dimensional (2D) images of the scene is received. Geometric information and semantic information of each of the plurality of 2D images is determined. The geometric information indicates a detected line and a reference direction in the respe...