US Patent Issued to Aurora Operations on Sept. 22 for "Visual language models for perception" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,085, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Visual language models for perception" was invented by Stephen O'Hara (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Ariel Quinn (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided, that includes: receiving camera data from a perception system of an autonomous vehicle; and providing the camera data to a visual language model, where the visual language model includes a mapping of a corpus of images and a corpus of text to a common parameter space. The method further includes: receiving from the visual language model an output corresponding to one or more text t...