ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,686, issued on July 15, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Annotating image data based on projected lidar data" was invented by Robert Evan Mahieu (San Mateo, Calif.), David Pfeiffer (Foster City, Calif.) and Zeng Wang (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for densifying annotations associated with sensor data are discussed herein. For example, techniques may include projecting a subset of lidar points into an unannotated two-dimensional image. Based on the projecting, the annotations of lidar points projected into the image can be associated with the image data. A subset of pixels of pixels ca...