US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Dec. 9 for "Hardware-based feature tracker for autonomous systems and applications" (Texas, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,038, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hardware-based feature tracker for autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Zoran Nikolic (Sugarland, Texas) and Eric Viscito (Shelburne, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, techniques for using hardware feature trackers in autonomous or semi-autonomous systems are described. Systems and methods are disclosed that use a processor(s) to determine flow vectors associated with pixel locations in a first image. The systems also use the processor(s) to determine a location of a feature point in a second image based at least on one or...