US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on May 20 for "Optical flow techniques and systems for accurate identification and tracking of moving objects" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,684, issued on May 20, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optical flow techniques and systems for accurate identification and tracking of moving objects" was invented by Dong Zhang (Shanghai) and Xi He (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques that may perform methods of pyramid optical flow processing with efficient identification and handling of object boundary pixels. In pyramid optical flow, motion vectors for pixels of image layers having a coarse resolution may be used as hints for identification of motion vectors for pixels of image layers having a high...