US Patent Issued to Waymo on Feb. 18 for "Unsupervised training of optical flow estimation neural networks" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,972, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Unsupervised training of optical flow estimation neural networks" was invented by Daniel Rudolf Maurer (Mountain View, Calif.), Austin Charles Stone (San Francisco), Alper Ayvaci (Santa Clara, Calif.), Anelia Angelova (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Rico Jonschkowski (Berlin).

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 training a neural network to predict optical flow. One of the methods includes obtaining a batch of one or more training image pairs; for each of the pairs: processin...