ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,784, issued on May 20, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Object detection using augmented data" was invented by Po-Jen Lai (Mountain View, Calif.), Shuangting Liu (Foster City, Calif.) and Francesco Papi (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improving training data used to train a model to detect objects in an environment are disclosed. Portions of a dataset that are associated with significant operational conditions may be associated with indications of such conditions. The properties of these portions may be used to identify other portions of the dataset or other datasets for augmentation. D...