ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,277, issued on April 7, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Learning method, learning device, mobile object control device, mobile object control method, and storage medium" was invented by Yuji Yasui (Wako, Japan), Hideki Matsunaga (Wako, Japan), Takashi Matsumoto (Wako, Japan) and Gakuyo Fujimoto (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A learning method includes steps of associating, with an extended area in a bird's-eye view image, an annotation indicating that the extended area is a three-dimensional object; and generating, based on training data in which a bird's-eye view image is associated with an annotated bird...