ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,714, issued on April 15, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Detection clustering" was invented by Stanley Lilian Volta (Mountain View, Calif.) and Allan Zelener (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining detection boxes representing objects in an environment using pixel clustering are disclosed herein. Autonomous vehicle sensors can capture data in an environment that may include separate objects, such as large and/or articulated vehicles. In an example, the data can include a plurality of pixels that are associated with a large object. A vehicle computing system can generate a detectio...