US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 24 for "Infrastructure analysis using panoptic segmentation" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,982, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Infrastructure analysis using panoptic segmentation" was invented by Samuel Schulter (Long Island City, N.Y.) and Sparsh Garg (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems identifying road hazards include capturing an image of a road scene using a camera. The image is embedded using a segmentation model that includes an image branch having an image embedding layer that embeds images into a joint latent space and a text branch having a text embedding layer that embeds text into the joint latent space. A mask is generated for an object within the image u...