ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,387, issued on June 9, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Systems and methods for monocular based object detection" was invented by Sean Foley (Atlanta) and James Hays (Decatur, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer program products for object detection. The methods comprise performing the following operations by a computing device: obtaining an image that comprises a plurality of layers superimposed on each other; identifying a center point of a robot on a map; selecting a portion of the map contained in a geometric shape overlaid on the map so as to have ...