ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,242, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Use of detected objects for image processing" was invented by Dave Ferguson (Mountain View, Calif.) and Abhijit Ogale (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for the use of detected objects for image processing are described. A computing device autonomously controlling a vehicle may receive images of the environment surrounding the vehicle from an image-capture device coupled to the vehicle. In order to process the images, the computing device may receive information indicating characteristics of objects in the images from one ...