US Patent Issued to Zoox on Nov. 18 for "Three-dimensional point clouds based on images and depth data" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,725, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional point clouds based on images and depth data" was invented by Kratarth Goel (Albany, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are discussed herein for generating three-dimensional (3D) representations of an environment based on two-dimensional (2D) image data, and using the 3D representations to perform 3D object detection and other 3D analyses of the environment. 2D image data may be received, along with depth estimation data associated with the 2D image data. Using the 2D image data and associated depth data, an image-based object det...