ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,085, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Long range distance estimation using reference objects" was invented by Yu-Han Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Maya Kabkab (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ruichi Yu (Mountain View, Calif.), Yingwei Li (Baltimore), Hang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yu Ouyang (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a distance estimate for a target object that is depicted in an image of a scene in an environment. The system obtains data specifying (i) a target portion ...