ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,379, issued on July 8, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Image to world space transformation for ground-truth generation in autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Zongyi Yang (Eatontown, N.J.), Mariusz Bojarski (Lincroft, N.J.) and Bernhard Firner (Highland Park, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, image space coordinates of an image from a video may be labeled, projected to determine 3D vehicle space coordinates, then transformed to 3D world space coordinates using known 3D world space coordinates and relative positioning between the coordinate spaces. For example, 3D vehicle spac...