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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2023
Nec Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Samuel Schulter, Long Island City, NY (US);
Sparsh Garg, San Jose, CA (US);
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Methods and systems identifying road hazards include capturing an image of a road scene using a camera. The image is embedded using a segmentation model that includes an image branch having an image embedding layer that embeds images into a joint latent space and a text branch having a text embedding layer that embeds text into the joint latent space. A mask is generated for an object within the image using the segmentation model. A probability is determined that the object matches a road hazard using the segmentation mode. A signal is generated responsive to the probability to ameliorate a danger posed by the road hazard.