ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,426, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"RGB-T multispectral pedestrian detection method based on target aware fusion strategy" was invented by Huiliang Shen (Hangzhou, China), Xue Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Xiaohan Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Beinan Yu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An RGB-T (Thermal) multispectral pedestrian detection method based on a target aware fusion strategy, which aims to accurately determine the position of pedestrians from a pair of RGB and thermal infrared images. Given a pair of RGB and thermal infrared image to be detected, this method firstly extrac...