ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,355, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).
"Method for generating land-cover maps" was invented by Jan Zapletal (Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic) and Martina Bekrova (Prague).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for generating land-cover maps of an area, comprising: receiving a plurality of digital input images; performing semantic segmentation in the input images, segmenting each image individually and with a plurality of semantic classes, each semantic class being related to a land-cover class from a set of land-cover classes; identifying a set of single-image probabili...