US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 14 for "Feature fusion for near field and far field images for vehicle applications" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,915, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Feature fusion for near field and far field images for vehicle applications" was invented by Varun Ravi Kumar (San Diego) and Senthil Kumar Yogamani (Headford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for vehicle driving assistance systems that support image processing. In a first aspect, a method of fusing features from near-field images and far-field images is provided that includes determining feature vectors and spatial locations for received images from near-field and far-field image sensors. A first set of ...