US Patent Issued to NTT on Oct. 6 for "Dimension estimation device, dimension estimation method and dimension estimation program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,412, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to NTT INC. (Tokyo).

"Dimension estimation device, dimension estimation method and dimension estimation program" was invented by Kohei Mori (Tokyo), Yuki Yokohata (Tokyo), Aki Hayashi (Tokyo), Takahiro Hata (Tokyo) and Kazuaki Obana (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a dimension estimation device, an image acquired in a moving body is acquired, and a vanishing point and a predetermined decision line in the image are calculated. An object in the image is detected and a detection rectangle is detected for the object, the detection rectangle being a rectangle including a first surface that is a s...