ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,340, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CARIAD SE (Wolfsburg, Germany) and ROBERT BOSCH GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for generating a representation of the surroundings" was invented by Denis Tananaev (Sindelfingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present method generates a three-dimensional representation of surroundings using an end-to-end convolutional neural network. A captured image is subdivided into multiple vertical columns, which the model processes to parameterize multiple three-dimensional stixels for each column. By providing at least two stixels per column, the system captures a comprehensive environment, ...