US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 17 for "System and method for unknown object manipulation from pure synthetic stereo data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,040, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"System and method for unknown object manipulation from pure synthetic stereo data" was invented by Thomas Kollar (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin Stone (Palo Alto, Calif.), Michael Laskey (Oakland, Calif.) and Mark Edward Tjersland (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training a neural network to perform 3D object manipulation is described. The method includes extracting features from each image of a synthetic stereo pair of images. The method also includes generating a low-res...