US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE on May 20 for "System and method for self-supervised monocular ground-plane extraction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,695, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"System and method for self-supervised monocular ground-plane extraction" was invented by Vitor Guizilini (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rares A. Ambrus (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Adrien David Gaidon (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an agent to navigate through an environment includes generating a depth map associated with a monocular image of the environment. The method also includes generating a group of surface normal. Each surface normal of the group of surface normals is associated with a respective polygon of ...