US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Nov. 25 for "Object detection improvement based on autonomously selected training samples" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,266, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Object detection improvement based on autonomously selected training samples" was invented by Brandon Northcutt (Arlington, Mass.), Katarina Bouma (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kevin Stone (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Konstantine Mushegian (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training an object detection system includes estimating a location of a first object in an environment based on a density cluster map generated from a plurality of images of the environment. The method also includes generating one or more negative training sample...