US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on March 17 for "UAV perception validation based upon a semantic AGL estimate" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,900, issued on March 17, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"UAV perception validation based upon a semantic AGL estimate" was invented by Ali Shoeb (San Rafael, Calif.) and Kyle Krafka (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for perception validation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes: acquiring an aerial image of a ground area with an onboard camera system of the UAV, generating a semantic above ground altitude (AGL) estimate with a neural network trained to output the semantic AGL estimate in response to the aerial image fed as an input to the neural network, generating a motion es...