US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on Dec. 23 for "System and method for estimating pedestrian risk situation" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,674, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"System and method for estimating pedestrian risk situation" was invented by Dae Hoe Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jinyoung Moon (Daejeon, South Korea), Sungchan Oh (Daejeon, South Korea) and Je-Seok Ham (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating a pedestrian risk situation includes receiving an image captured by a CCTV camera that is installed at a predetermined location, generating a bounding box of a pedestrian within the image, generating a segmentation map by performing semantic seg...