US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 9 for "Object detection using skewed polygons suitable for parking space detection" (American, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,278, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Object detection using skewed polygons suitable for parking space detection" was invented by Dongwoo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Junghyun Kwon (San Jose, Calif.), Sangmin Oh (San Jose, Calif.), Wenchao Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), Hae-Jong Seo (San Jose, Calif.), David Nister (Bellevue, Wash.) and Berta Rodriguez Hervas (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network may be used to determine corner points of a skewed polygon (e.g., as displacement values to anchor box corner points) that accurately delineate a region in an image that defines a par...