ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,248, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Late-to-early temporal fusion for point clouds" was invented by Tong He (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Pei Sun (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zhaoqi Leng (Milpitas, Calif.), Chenxi Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Mingxing Tan (Newark, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating an output that characterizes a scene at a current time step. In one aspect, one of the systems include: a voxel neural network that generates a current early-stage feature representation of the current p...