US Patent Issued to HERE Global on April 21 for "System and method for detection of road features based on artificial shadow data" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,908, issued on April 21, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and method for detection of road features based on artificial shadow data" was invented by Yu Hai (San Diego) and Xiaoying Jin (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for detecting road features. The approach, for example, involves receiving image data associated with one or more road features. The received image data may be associated with ground truth label data corresponding to the one or more road features. The approach further involves determining a set of shadowed regions from one or more images of the rec...