ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,357, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Geometry-aware semantics segmentation with gravity-normal regularization" was invented by Ching-Wei Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Mohsen Ghafoorian (Diemen, Netherlands), Nikhil Khullar (San Diego), Yu Fu (Taipei, Taiwan), Shang-Lun Lee (Taipei, Taiwan) and Abhijeet Bisain (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and techniques for image processing. For example, a computing device can generate, using a multi-task model, a segmentation output and a normal output based on image(s) of a scene and a gravity vector for the scene. The computing device can...