US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 18 for "Cross-modal dense semantic label generation by diffusion and iterative inpainting" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,791, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cross-modal dense semantic label generation by diffusion and iterative inpainting" was invented by Varun Ravi Kumar (San Diego), Balaji Shankar Balachandran (San Diego) and Senthil Kumar Yogamani (Headford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating dense semantic labels for objects in a camera image may be accomplished by constructing an image graph where nodes of the image graph represent pixels of a camera image; performing a first diffusion of labels on the image graph using sparse labels from a point cloud sensor to generate propagated labels; applying in...