ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,475, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ouster Inc. (San Francisco).
"Processing of LIDAR images" was invented by Angus Pacala (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for processing lidar data. The lidar data can be obtained in a particular manner that allows reconstruction of rectilinear images for which image processing can be applied from image to image. For instance, kernel-based image processing techniques can be used. Such processing techniques can use neighboring lidar and/or associated color pixels to adjust various values associated with the lidar signals. Such image processing of lid...