US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 29 for "Feature tracking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,292, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Feature tracking" was invented by Yue Wu (Mountain View, Calif.), Cheng-Chieh Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Tong (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Minwoo Park (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, feature tracking for autonomous or semi-autonomous systems and applications is described herein. Systems and methods are disclosed that merge, using one or more processes, features detected using a feature tracker(s) and features detected using a feature detector(s) in order to track features between images. In some examples, the number of...