US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on July 22 for "Multi-view geometry-based hazard detection for autonomous systems and applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,344, issued on July 22, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-view geometry-based hazard detection for autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Minwoo Park (Saratoga, Calif.), Yue Wu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Cheng-Chieh Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, systems and methods are disclosed that detect hazards on a roadway by identifying discontinuities between pixels on a depth map. For example, two synchronized stereo cameras mounted on an ego-machine may generate images that may be used extract depth or disparity information. Because a hazard's height may ca...