ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,548, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Vision based object representation" was invented by Jonathan Tyler Dowdall (San Francisco), Kratarth Goel (Albany, Calif.), Adam Edward Pollack (San Francisco) and Scott M. Purdy (Lake Forest Park, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for refining an image-based bounding box with depth data from a lidar sensor to represent an object in an environment of a vehicle are discussed herein. A vehicle computing device can implement a model to determine a three-dimensional bounding box based on image data. The vehicle computing device can implement a same of d...