ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,413, issued on June 10, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Image stitching with color harmonization for surround view systems and applications" was invented by Yuzhuo Ren (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dawid Stanislaw Pajak (San Carlos, Calif.), Niranjan Avadhanam (Saratoga, Calif.) and Guangli Dai (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, color statistic(s) from ground projections are used to harmonize color between reference and target frames representing an environment. The reference and target frames may be projected onto a representation of the ground (e.g., a ground plane) of the environment, an overl...