US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Aug. 4 for "System and methods for refining room segments to improve aesthetic quality for end-user applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,184, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"System and methods for refining room segments to improve aesthetic quality for end-user applications" was invented by Lincan Zou (San Jose, Calif.), Christian Juette (Redwood City, Calif.) and Liu Ren (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure presents an efficient method for improving the aesthetic quality of noisy room segments corresponding to a scanned environment, such as those used by mobile robots to navigate an environment to perform a task. Room polygons are extracted from the noisy room segments and visual scores of the extra...