US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on June 16 for "6D object pose estimation with 2D and 3D pointwise features" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,357, issued on June 16, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"6D object pose estimation with 2D and 3D pointwise features" was invented by Yuliang Guo (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xinyu Huang (San Jose, Calif.) and Liu Ren (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining a 6D pose of an object in an image are disclosed. In embodiments, an input image is received from a sensor, wherein the input image includes an object in the image. A trained image encoder transforms the input image into a normal map and an instance segmentation map. The normal map is encoded with pointwise 2D features. A 3D CAD mo...