US Patent Issued to APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING), BAIDU USA on June 3 for "Scalable video compression accelerator for autonomous driving" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,645, issued on June 3, was assigned to APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BAIDU USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Scalable video compression accelerator for autonomous driving" was invented by Qiang Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Manjiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shuai Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video system includes a first data gathering node configured to receive a plurality of image streams from a plurality of cameras, respectively. Each of the plurality of cameras captures an environment of an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV). The first data gathering node tags the plu...