US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on Sept. 8 for "System and method for object segmentation for task performance" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,532, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method for object segmentation for task performance" was invented by Anoop Cherian (Acton, Mass.), Siddarth Jain (Cambridge, Mass.) and Tim Marks (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosing a controller for controlling a robot to perform a task are provided. The task is performed in an environment that is represented by an input image. The controller causes segmenting of an object in the input image. A confidence level of segmentation is updated by comparing the segmented object with constrai...