ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,393, issued on March 24, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany) and Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).
"Knowledge-driven scene priors for semantic audio-visual embodied navigation" was invented by Jonathan Francis (Pittsburgh), Luca Bondi (Pittsburgh), Gyan Tatiya (Medford, Mass.) and Ingrid Navarro (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling navigation of a device in an environment using machine learning (ML) models includes receiving visual and audio observation data of the environment as sensed by the device, determining classification scores for objects and regions in the environment based on th...