ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,761, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Feature point identification in sparse optical flow based tracking in a computer vision system" was invented by Deepak Kumar Poddar (Bangalore, India), Anshu Jain (Bangalore, India), Desappan Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Pramod Kumar Swami (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sparse optical flow based tracking in a computer vision system is provided that includes detecting feature points in a frame captured by a monocular camera in the computer vision system to generate a plurality of detected feature points, generating a binary image i...