ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,158, issued on April 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Pose estimation" was invented by Punarjay Chakravarty (Campbell, Calif.), Subodh Mishra (Bryan, Texas), Mostafa Parchami (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Gaurav Pandey (College Station, Texas) and Shubham Shrivastava (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-dimensional image segment that includes an outline of an object can be determined in a top-down fisheye image. A six degree of freedom (DoF) pose for the object can be determined based on determining a three-dimensional bounding box determined by one or more of (1) an axis of the two-dimen...