US Patent Issued to Zoox on Nov. 18 for "Object bounding contours based on image data" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,718, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Object bounding contours based on image data" was invented by Scott M. Purdy (Lake Forest Park, Wash.), Derek Xiang Ma (San Carlos, Calif.), Subhasis Das (San Mateo, Calif.) and Zeng Wang (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are discussed herein for controlling autonomous vehicles within a driving environment, including generating and using bounding contours associated with objects detected in the environment. Image data may be captured and analyzed to identify and/or classify objects within the environment. Image-based and/or lidar-ba...