ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,269, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Multi-resolution top-down segmentation" was invented by Stanley L. Volta (Mountain View, Calif.) and Allan Zelener (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for segmenting sensor data are discussed herein. Data can be represented in individual levels in a multi-resolution voxel space. A first level can correspond to a first region of an environment and a second level can correspond to a second region of an environment that is a subset of the first region. In some examples, the levels can comprise a same number of voxels, such that the first l...