US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on May 20 for "Machine-learned monocular depth estimation and semantic segmentation for 6-DOF absolute localization of a delivery drone" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,710, issued on May 20, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Machine-learned monocular depth estimation and semantic segmentation for 6-DOF absolute localization of a delivery drone" was invented by Ali Shoeb (San Rafael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a two-dimensional (2D) image captured by a camera on a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and representative of an environment of the UAV. The method further includes applying a trained machine learning model to the 2D image to produce a semantic image of the environment and a depth image of the environment, where the semantic image compr...