ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,837, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Three dimensional (3D) object detection" was invented by Aishwarya Dubey (Plano, Texas) and Hetul Sanghvi (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying regions of interest (ROIs) includes receiving, by a processor from a video camera, a video image and computing, by the processor, an optical flow image, based on the video image. The method also includes computing, by the processor, a magnitude of optical flow image based on the video image and computing a histogram of optical flow magnitudes (HOFM) image for the video image based on t...