US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 23 for "Targeted object detection in image processing applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,940, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Targeted object detection in image processing applications" was invented by Shekhar Dwivedi (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Gigon Bae (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to train and apply a first machine learning model to identify a plurality of regions of interest within an input image, and to train and apply a plurality of second machine learning models to identify one or more objects within each region of interest identified by the first machine learning model."

The patent was filed on Jan. 27, 2023, un...