US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on March 25 for "Image-based keypoint generation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,574, issued on March 25, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Image-based keypoint generation" was invented by Ronghua Zhang (Campbell, Calif.), Derik Schroeter (Fremont, Calif.), Mengxi Wu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Di Zeng (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operations may comprise obtaining a plurality of light detection and ranging (LIDAR) scans of a region. The operations may also comprise identifying a plurality of LIDAR poses that correspond to the plurality of LIDAR scans. In addition, the operations may comprise identifying, as a plurality of keyframes, a plurality of images of the region that...