ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,535, issued on June 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"6D pose and shape estimation method" was invented by Sven Meier (Brussels), Norimasa Kobori (Brussels), Luca Minciullo (Brussels), Kei Yoshikawa (Brussels), Fabian Manhardt (Munich), Manuel Nickel (Munich) and Nassir Navab (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of estimating a 6D pose and shape of one or more objects from a 2D image, comprises the steps of: detecting, within the 2D image, one or more 2D regions of interest, each 2D region of interest containing a corresponding object among the one of more objects; cropping out ...