US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on July 28 for "Foundation model for zero-shot stereo matching" (Washington, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,551, issued on July 28, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Foundation model for zero-shot stereo matching" was invented by Bowen Wen (Issaquah, Wash.), Matthew Trepte (San Francisco), Orazio Gallo (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Jan Kautz (Lexington, Mass.) and Stanley Thomas Birchfield (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed that use a Foundational Stereo Model to generate an output disparity map. The Foundational Stereo Model includes side-tuning adapters (STA) that utilize a vision transformer (ViT) and a convolutional neural network (CNN) to generate feature maps. Specifically, t...