US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Feb. 3 for "Camera and articulated object motion estimation from video" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,860, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Camera and articulated object motion estimation from video" was invented by Muhammed Kocabas (Tuebeingen, Germany), Ye Yuan (State College, Pa.), Umar Iqbal (Fremont, Calif.), Pavlo Molchanov (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jan Kautz (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Estimating motion of a human or other object in video is a common computer task with applications in robotics, sports, mixed reality, etc. However, motion estimation becomes difficult when the camera capturing the video is moving, because the observed object and camera motions are entan...