US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on May 6 for "Method, apparatus, and computer program product for map geometry generation based on object detection" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,308, issued on May 6, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for map geometry generation based on object detection" was invented by Fei Tang (Aarau, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided to automatically create road and lane geometry from images representing map geometry within a geographical area using object detection. Methods may include: receiving a rasterized image representative of map geometry within a geographic area, where each pixel of the rasterized image includes a property representing at least one component of the map geometry...