US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 1 for "Semantic visual feature sharing" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,301, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Semantic visual feature sharing" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego), Stelios Stefanatos (San Diego) and Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device for processing image data includes a processing unit configured to determine a set of criteria representing keypoints of interest for processed image data; extract a plurality of keypoints from the image; determine which of the plurality of keypoints match the set of criteria representing the keypoints of interest to determine a matched set of keypoints; and output...