US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Oct. 7 for "Accelerated non-maximum suppression in machine learning applications" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,556, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Accelerated non-maximum suppression in machine learning applications" was invented by Zhimeng Fan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform non-maximum suppression (NMS) with a bit-reduced radix sort to remove redundant bounding boxes are described. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits perform i) a bit-reduced radix sort operation to sort a list of confidence scores associated with a set of bounding boxes corresponding to one or more objects within one or more digital images and ii) a non-maximum suppr...