ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,821, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Illuminated multi-view sensing using 3D reconstruction for in-cabin applications" was invented by Animesh Khemka (Fremont, Calif.), Robin Brian Jenkin (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Wangren Xu (San Jose, Calif.) and Balaji Srinivas Holur (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical sensors (e.g., cameras) and (e.g., IR) illumination sources may be distributed in an environment (e.g., an interior space such as a cabin or cockpit of an ego-machine) and synchronized to generate frames of sensor data, which may be used to reconstruct 3D geometry and/or 3D p...