ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,428, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for generating 3D ground truth" was invented by Hyun Kyu Lim (Gwacheon-Si, South Korea) and Jae Ha Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and apparatus for generating a three-dimensional (3D) ground truth (GT). The method includes obtaining 3D GT of a target object by using data obtained by a lidar, obtaining a 2D box for the obtained 3D GT by projecting the obtained 3D GT onto a 2D plane, comparing the 2D box with a box of a 2D GT for the target object obtained ...