ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,689, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to TESLA INC. (Austin, Texas).
"Estimating object properties using visual image data" was invented by James Anthony Musk (San Francisco), Swupnil Kumar Sahai (Saratoga, Calif.) and Ashok Kumar Elluswamy (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is comprised of one or more processors coupled to memory. The one or more processors are configured to receive image data based on an image captured using a camera of a vehicle and to utilize the image data as a basis of an input to a trained machine learning model to at least in part identify a distance of an object from the vehicle. The t...