US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF LELAND STANDFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY on May 27 for "Monocular object detection via end-to-end differentiable pipeline" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,271, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF LELAND STANDFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Stanford, Calif.).

"Monocular object detection via end-to-end differentiable pipeline" was invented by Rares Andrei Ambrus (San Francisco), Or Litany (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vitor Guizilini (Santa Clara, Calif.), Leonidas Guibas (Palo Alto, Calif.), Adrien David Gaidon (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jie Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for 3D object detection is described. The method includes concurrently training a monocular depth network and a 3D object dete...