US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Oct. 6 for "Belief propagation for range image mapping in autonomous machine applications" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,554, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Belief propagation for range image mapping in autonomous machine applications" was invented by David Wehr (Redmond, Wash.), Ibrahim Eden (Redmond, Wash.) and Joachim Pehserl (Lynnwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, systems and methods are described that generate scene flow in 3D space through simplifying the 3D LiDAR data to "2.5D" optical flow space (e.g., x, y, and depth flow). For example, LiDAR range images may be used to generate 2.5D representations of depth flow information between frames of LiDAR data, and two or more range ...