US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 3 for "Joint pose estimation method, joint pose estimation system, and joint pose estimation program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,274, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Joint pose estimation method, joint pose estimation system, and joint pose estimation program" was invented by Norimasa Kobori (Nakano-ku, Japan), Jira Jindalertudomdee (Setagaya-ku, Japan) and Quan Kong (Toshima-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the method of the present disclosure, a two-dimensional joint pose of a target object belonging to an articulated object is estimated from an image of the target object by using a model. A query pose is generated by removing a joint whose confidence score is lower than a threshold from the two-...