US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for efficient video instance segmentation for vehicles using edge computing" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,555, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for efficient video instance segmentation for vehicles using edge computing" was invented by Yitao Chen (Tempe, Ariz.), Dawei Chen (Milpitas, Calif.) and Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video instance segmentation is provided. The method includes inputting a plurality of video frames collected by a sensor of a vehicle to a trained machine learning model to obtain an n-th output from an n-th layer of the trained machi...