US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Dec. 23 for "Crawl approach for creation and automatic annotation of custom datasets" (Alabama, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,559, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Crawl approach for creation and automatic annotation of custom datasets" was invented by Aroua Gharbi (Huntsville, Ala.) and Anthony Wayne Baker (Gilbertsville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of creating custom datasets is provided. The method comprises capturing, with a camera, a sequence of images of a surface in a specified crawl direction over a number of sequential crawl steps that represent changes of camera position. For each crawl step, the method matches a first image and a second image captured at sequential camera positions. The method m...