US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Feb. 17 for "RGB-IR data processing for autonomous systems and applications" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,188, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"RGB-IR data processing for autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Samuel Hung (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sean Midthun Pieper (Waldport, Ore.), Eric Dujardin (San Jose, Calif.) and Sung Hyun Hwang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, such as for use in an automobile, is configured to process image data that includes infrared values and visible light values (e.g., data generated by a red, green, blue, infrared (RGB-IR) sensor). The system determines how to blend IR data and visible light data together to generate optimal images ...