ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,910, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Self extrinsic self-calibration via geometrically consistent self-supervised depth and ego-motion learning" was invented by Takayuki Kanai (Los Altos, Calif.), Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rares A. Ambrus (San Francisco), Adrien Gaidon (San Jose, Calif.) and Igor Vasiljevic (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein relate to self-supervised scale-aware learning of camera extrinsic parameters. One embodiment processes instantaneous velocit...