ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,922, issued on May 19, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Image stitching with saccade-based control of dynamic seam placement for surround view visualization" was invented by Steen Kristensen (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Simon Kiefhaber (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a stitched image may be generated from overlapping image frames using a dynamic seam placement that depends on scene content and/or other factors. Since an optimized seam placement may jump from a previous location from time slice to time slice, one or more constraints may be applied to limit the movement of dynami...