US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on March 11 for "Regression-based line detection for autonomous driving machines" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,319, issued on March 11, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Regression-based line detection for autonomous driving machines" was invented by Minwoo Park (Saratoga, Wash.), Xiaolin Lin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hae-Jong Seo (San Jose, Calif.), David Nister (Bellevue, Wash.) and Neda Cvijetic (East Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, systems and methods are disclosed that preserve rich spatial information from an input resolution of a machine learning model to regress on lines in an input image. The machine learning model may be trained to predict, in deployment, distances for each pixel ...