ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,182, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Feature tracking" was invented by Ahmad Itani (San Jose, Calif.), Yen-Te Shih (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Jagadeesh Sankaran (Dublin, Calif.), Ravi P Singh (Austin, Texas) and Ching-Yu Hung (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a VPU and associated components may be optimized to improve VPU performance and throughput. For example, the VPU may include a min/max collector, automatic store predication functionality, a SIMD data path organization that allows for inter-lane sharing, a transposed load/store with stride parameter func...