ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,959, issued on July 29, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Computing optical flow using semi-global matching" was invented by Raju Konda (Hyderabad, India) and Sampurnananda Mishra (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to determine optical flow. In at least one embodiment, a set of disparity values is used to determine optical flow between input and reference images. For each of a plurality of image regions of the input image, the set of disparity values may include disparity values for a plurality of directions intersecting the image region."
The patent was filed on Feb. ...