US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Jan. 13 for "Spatial masking for stitched images and surround view visualizations" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,960, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Spatial masking for stitched images and surround view visualizations" was invented by Nuri Murat Arar (Zurich), Niranjan Avadhanam (Saratoga, Calif.), Yuzhuo Ren (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Hairong Jiang (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, updates to a dynamic seam placement and/or fitted 3D bowl may be at least partially concealed using spatial masking. A future time in which a predicted change in dynamic seam placement and/or fitted 3D bowl exceeds some threshold may be determined, and a predicted dynamic seam movement and/or ...