ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,409, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Self-calibrated pyramid network for pillar-based detector" was invented by Youngsaeng Jin (Seoul, South Korea), Sanghyuk Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Seok-Soo Hong (Seoul, South Korea) and Soyeb Noormohammed Nagori (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems are provided for object detection. For instance, a process can include receiving a set of 3D features, wherein the set of 3D features are generated based on an obtained 3D point cloud; downsampling the set of 3D features; pooling the downsampled set of 3D features based on Atrous Spatial Pyramid P...