US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 5 for "Camera soiling detection using attention-guided camera depth and LIDAR range consistency gating" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,954, issued on May 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Camera soiling detection using attention-guided camera depth and LIDAR range consistency gating" was invented by Varun Ravi Kumar (San Diego), Senthil Kumar Yogamani (Headford, Ireland) and Shivansh Rao (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a plurality of images, wherein a first image of the one or more images comprises a range image and a second image comprises a camera image and filtering the first image to generate a filtered first image. The method also includes generating a plurality of depth estimates based on the second image and ge...