ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,326, issued on May 12, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Image stitching with an adaptive three-dimensional bowl model of the surrounding environment for surround view visualization" was invented by Hairong Jiang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nuri Murat Arar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Orazio Gallo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jan Kautz (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ronan Letoquin (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, an environment surrounding an ego-object is visualized using an adaptive 3D bowl that models the environment with a shape that changes based on distance (and direction) to one or more repr...