US Patent Issued to DENSO International America, DENSO on Jan. 20 for "Instance segmentation systems and methods for SPAD Lidar" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,782, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to DENSO International America Inc. (Southfield, Mich.) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Instance segmentation systems and methods for SPAD Lidar" was invented by Minglei Huang (Farmington, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized method for instance segmentation using single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) light detection and ranging (Lidar) includes obtaining sensor image data from photon detector of an SPAD Lidar sensor, supplying the obtained sensor image data to a two-dimensional convolutional neural network (CNN) to generate a background mask by identifying target objects in the ob...