ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,822, issued on June 30, was assigned to NAVER Corp. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).
"Distilling information for crowd-aware robot navigation" was invented by Gianluca Monaci (Grenoble, France), Michel Aractingi (Grenoble, France) and Tomi Silander (Grenoble, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigating device includes: a camera configured to capture images within a field of view, the field of view depicting a scene including humans; a feature module configured to generate feature vectors based on the scene of humans in the images and to specify latent vectors that summarize movement of the humans in the scene based only on the came...