US Patent Issued to Meissa Planet on July 14 for "Road extraction device and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,634, issued on July 14, was assigned to Meissa Planet Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Road extraction device and method" was invented by Yonghyub Sakong (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun Sun Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Dong Young Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road extraction device and method comprising: a data collection module configured to collect a road image associated with a road; and a deep learning module configured to perform a task for extracting the road from the road image by using deep learning technology, wherein the deep learning module comprises: a first deep learning unit configured to perform segme...