ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,447, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Image stitching with color harmonization of de-processed images for surround view systems and applications" was invented by Yuzhuo Ren (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dawid Stanislaw Pajak (San Carlos, Calif.) and Niranjan Avadhanam (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, color harmonization is applied to images of an environment in a reference light space. For example, different cameras on an ego-object may use independent capturing algorithms to generate processed images of the environment representing a common time slice using different c...