US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Nov. 3 for "Surface estimation" (Austrian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,247, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Surface estimation" was invented by Andreas Klaus (Graz, Austria), Gerald Schweighofer (Blaindorf, Austria), Joachim Pehserl (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Joachim Bauer (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to surface estimation using stereo imaging and surface disparities. For example, a three-dimensional (3D) surface structure may be modeled as a disparity field, and a surface disparity field representing a surface in the environment (e.g., the ground) may be generated using a constrained nonlinear hierarchical op...