ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,137, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detecting hazards based on disparity maps using computer vision for autonomous machine systems and applications" was invented by Yue Wu (Mountain View, Calif.), Liwen Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Cheng-Chieh Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Gang Pan (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In examples, system and methods for stereo disparity based hazard detection for autonomous machine applications are presented. Example embodiments may assist an ego-machine in detecting hazards within its path of travel. The systems and methods may use disparity between a...