US Patent Issued to WAYMO on May 13 for "Pipeline architecture for road sign detection and evaluation" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,002, issued on May 13, was assigned to WAYMO LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Pipeline architecture for road sign detection and evaluation" was invented by Maya Kabkab (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology provides a sign detection and classification methodology. A unified pipeline approach incorporates generic sign detection with a robust parallel classification strategy. Sensor information such as camera imagery and lidar depth, intensity and height (elevation) information are applied to a sign detector module. This enables the system to detect the presence of a sign in a vehicle's external environment. A mo...