US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 29 for "System and method for 3D object perception trained from pure synthetic stereo data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,340, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"System and method for 3D object perception trained from pure synthetic stereo data" was invented by Thomas Kollar (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin Stone (Palo Alto, Calif.), Michael Laskey (Oakland, Calif.) and Mark Edward Tjersland (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for 3D object perception is described. The method includes extracting features from each image of a synthetic stereo pair of images. The method also includes generating a low-resolution disparity image based on the f...