ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,019, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Image matching using chroma-enhanced or adaptable size features" was invented by Soonam Lee (San Diego), Khalid Tahboub (San Diego), Bing Han (San Diego) and Kai Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for feature-based image matching. A method generally includes obtaining a first image frame and a second image frame; generating a modified first image frame and a modified second image frame, wherein to generate the modified first image frame and the modified second image frame comprises to convert ...