US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Sept. 8 for "System and method for proposal-free and cluster-free panoptic segmentation system of point clouds" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,265, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for proposal-free and cluster-free panoptic segmentation system of point clouds" was invented by Thomas Enxu Li (Mississauga, Canada), Ryan Razani (Toronto) and Bingbing Liu (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for panoptic segmentation of a point cloud are provided. A point cloud is projected into a range image. Features are extracted from the range image and generating a feature map from the extracted features. The feature map is downsampled and the features are scaled during downsampling using ...