ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,969, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Efficient vision perception" was invented by Hee Jun Park (San Diego), Abhinav Goel (Lafayette, Ind.) and Young Hoon Kang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for vision perception processing. An example method can include determining an attention demand score or characteristic per region of a frame from a sequence of frames; generating attention votes per region of the frame based on the attention demand score or characteristic per region, the attention votes per region providing attention demands and/or attention requests; de...