ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,365, issued on June 10, was assigned to AUTEL ROBOTICS Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Stereo matching method, image processing chip and mobile vehicle" was invented by Qingqing Xie (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention relates to a stereo matching method, an image processing chip and a mobile vehicle. The stereo matching method includes: calculating aggregate cost values between all reference pixels and a target pixel in a preset search region, the reference pixel being a pixel in a reference image, and the target pixel being a pixel in a target image; determining a texture property of t...