US Patent Issued to PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for optical flow estimation" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,150, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY (Portland, Ore.).

"Systems and methods for optical flow estimation" was invented by Feng Liu (Beaverton, Ore.) and Hoang Le (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for optical flow estimation. In one embodiment, a method comprises estimating, with a first neural network, an optical flow between two image frames, wherein a resolution of the optical flow is lower than a resolution of the two image frames, and upsampling, with a second neural network, the optical flow to the resolution of the two image frames. In this way, the spee...