US Patent Issued to Zoox on May 6 for "Computer vision techniques using projections of map data into image data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,543, issued on May 6, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Computer vision techniques using projections of map data into image data" was invented by Xin Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Xinyu Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing computer vision operations for a vehicle using image data of an environment of the vehicle are described herein. In some cases, a vehicle (e.g., an autonomous vehicle) can determine a predicted position (including a predicted depth) and/or a predicted trajectory for an object in the vehicle environment based on data generated by projecting a map object describ...