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Nvidia patents method to blend infrared and visible light images

Patent drawing from the official filing.

Nvidia describes a technique for creating a single image by combining infrared data with standard visible light data. The system calculates a specific blending factor to merge these two types of data into one clear intensity image.

Why it mattersThis could improve how cameras see in low-light conditions by merging heat signatures with normal visual details.

In the filing’s own words

Apparatuses, systems, and techniques related to computing intensity images from infrared (IR) wavelength data and visibility wavelength data. In at least one embodiment, each IR image corresponding to the IR wavelength data is fused with a luminance (luma) image computed from corresponding the visibility wavelength data to produce IR/luma intensity images.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method for computing an intensity image, comprising: obtaining infrared (IR) image data and luma image data acquired from at least one sensor; computing a blending factor according to one or more optimization criteria and a brightness factor; and combining the IR image data and the luma image data based on the blending factor to produce the intensity image.

Facts

Company: Nvidia (NVIDIA Corporation)
Official title: INTENSITY IMAGE GENERATION USING INFRARED AND VISIBLE WAVELENGTH DATA
Publication number: US20260311373A1
Application number: 19171714
Filed: Apr 7, 2025
Published: Oct 8, 2026
Inventors: 2
Claims: 20

Classified under

G06T 7/97 Physics & computingG06T 2207/10048 Physics & computingG06T 2207/20084 Physics & computingG06T 2207/20221 Physics & computing

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