US Patent Issued to Carnegie Mellon University on Aug. 4 for "System and method for using non-axis aligned bounding boxes for retail detection" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,121, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"System and method for using non-axis aligned bounding boxes for retail detection" was invented by Marios Savvides (Pittsburgh), Chenchen Zhu (Pittsburgh), Fangyi Chen (Pittsburgh) and Han Zhang (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system and method for generating quadrilateral bonding boxes which tightly cover the most representative faces of retail products having arbitrary poses. The quadrilateral boxes do not include unnecessary background information or miss parts of the objects, as would the axis-aligned bounding boxes pro...