US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 26 for "Asynchronous multimodal feature fusion" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,938, issued on May 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Asynchronous multimodal feature fusion" was invented by Venkatraman Narayanan (Farmington Hills, Mich.), 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 image processing includes receiving image data from an image sensor; receiving ranging data from a ranging sensor; embedding first spatial features of the image data with first temporal information associated...