US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on April 14 for "Long-range 3D object detection using 2D bounding boxes" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,936, issued on April 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Long-range 3D object detection using 2D bounding boxes" was invented by Zetong Yang (Rockville, Md.), Zhiding Yu (Cupertino, Calif.), Ren Hao Wang (Toronto), Chris Choy (Los Angeles), Anima Anandkumar (Pasadena, Calif.) and Jose M. Alvarez Lopez (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "3D object detection is a computer vision task that generally detects (e.g. classifies and localizes) objects in 3D space from the 2D images or videos that capture the objects. Current techniques used for 3D object detection rely on machine learning processes tha...